Irish scientists have made a major breakthrough in treating black fever — the second most deadly parasitic disease after malaria.

Genetic mutations linked with leukaemia are “almost inevitable” as people get older, new research suggests.

A two billion-year-old riddle of how the basic building blocks of life were formed has been solved by scientists in Ireland, it was announced today.

SCIENTISTS today said they had finished writing the “book of life,” the three billion letters of DNA that make up the human genome.