A common plant could be used to help treat chemical spills and other river pollution — and young scientists are helping turn the idea from theory to practice this week.

Equinome has opened a sales and marketing office in Sydney in response to rising demand for its equine genomics services.

Hate arriving in an airport and then having to work out the best way to get into the city centre?

UCD equine scientist Barbara Murphy has won the Enterprise Ireland ‘One to Watch’ Award 2012 for her therapeutic light mask for horses.

If it was not for the diminutive Shetland pony, horse racing might well have been a sport for plodders rather than kings, research has revealed.

UCD’s spin-off company Equinome has launched a genetic test that can identify individual thoroughbred horses with the greatest genetic potential for racecourse success.

FOR one web-based Irish company, the drone of the vuvuzela horn at this year’s World Cup is music to its ears.

Four Irish companies will compete internationally at the Thistle BioScience “Rising Stars Showcase”in Edinburgh on Wednesday, February 6.

THE €30 million AIB Seed Capital Fund is to be located at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin. AIB was one of the founding sponsors that funded the construction of NovaUCD, which formally opened in 2003.

Irish entrepreneurs will share the secrets of their success at the NovaUCD Entrepreneurs Live seminar series which commences on 3 April and runs until 24 April.

Eventznet, specialists in web-based software tools and marketing solutions for event organisers, has announced the launch of a new network for event organisers in Ireland.

NovaUCD has launched its 2005 Campus Company Development Programme (CCDP).

Life sciences company Nanosense has won first prize in the 2004 entrepreneurship programme organised by NovaUCD, UCD’s centre for innovation and start-up businesses.

Life science company, Nanosense, has been declared the overall winner of this year's NovaUCD entrepreneurship programme, the Campus Company Development Programme (CCDP).

High-tech chip design company, Duolog Technologies is to relocate its Dublin headquarters to NovaUCD.

Two IT companies, Kodana and Visor, have located to NovaUCD, UCD's €10m innovation and technology transfer centre.

A BSE test which to date has earned more than €1.3m in royalty income for University College Dublin has won the inaugural NovaUCD Innovation Award.

A BIOTECH company based in UCD’s business incubator centre, NovaUCD, has secured €650,000 in venture capital funding.

E-learning company Cornerstone Knowledge International has located to NovaUCD, University College Dublin's €10m innovation and technology transfer centre.

Maritime services company, Maritime Management, has located to NovaUCD, University College Dublin's Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre.

University College Dublin-based research company Neosera Systems has signed a commercial deal with groups from the Technical University of Graz in Austria.

The UCD campus company, RealFoodatHome, has announced it has secured a substantial second round of funding from a leading Irish financial institution.

An innovative environmental technology company, Lightwave Technologies, was last night declared the overall winner of NovaUCD’s entrepreneurship programme, the Campus Company Development Programme (CCDP).