According to new research, the drug dimethyl fumarate has been shown to block blood clotting during infection, which could make a sizable impact on people who are suffering from a number of different conditions, one of which being the life-threatening disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC).

Joining Jonathan to discuss this development is one of those behind the research, Professor Luke O’Neill from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute.

Also joining Jonathan for this week's installment of Newsround is Dr. Jessamyn Fairfield, physicist at the University of Galway & Dr. Oran Kennedy, from the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine and the Tissue Engineering Research Group at RCSI.