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T cell breakthrough a step towards personalised medicine

Scientists have utilised AI to predict T cell receptors, advancing personalised medicine, and boosting immunotherapy and vaccine development.

Medicine and health

Striking a balance between social purpose and corporate profit

Businesses are facing increasing pressure to address major global challenges such as climate change, poverty, and healthcare access. But can companies really make a difference while still turning a profit?

Business

Managing medicine-related harm

The issue of medicine-related harm is immense, and how to tackle it is an area of growing interest to governments and healthcare systems alike.

Medicine and health

Breakthrough heralds immune-personalised medicine for lupus

The groundbreaking identification of a specific T-cell receptor in healthy people without lupus has the potential to treat not only that disease, but approximately 100 autoimmune diseases known to have a similar pathology.

Medicine and health

THREDing together a new approach to eating disorders

A new research program will target biological causes and possible treatments, including anti-psychotic drugs, brain stimulation and hormones.

Medicine and health

Mind matters: Sharpening the focus on ‘brain age’

Research into brain ageing may unlock the potential for the burgeoning science to be used in a clinical setting, providing a marker for cognitive health.

Medicine and health

We need to talk more about ChatGPT

Little has been said about the potential use and misuse of generative AI, particularly in medicine and healthcare.

Technology and engineering

How old is too old?

If we get a drug for every disease and we put people on a cocktail of drugs when they're 70 years old so that they can live to 110 instead of 100, is that a good thing or not?

A Different Lens

Episode 49: Is It Time to Join the Psychedelic Renaissance?

Attitudes towards psychoactive drugs for the treatment of mental health are changing, and for good reason – it’s hard to disagree with the evidence of the therapeutic benefits. Learn how psychedelic drugs, in concert with more traditional therapies, can change the lives of millions.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Listening in to get a head-start on cancer detection

New research is advancing the understanding of how cancer progresses by focusing on how cancer-specific proteins in cells communicate.

Medicine and health

The sky's the limit?: Unravelling the future of travel

Will we see driverless cars, personalised public transport and flying taxis in the future? In this episode we ask the experts what the future of travel looks like.

A Different Lens

The flu of us

Two Monash students – and also firm friends – are on a mission to boost the uptake of the influenza vaccine.

Medicine and health

Heads-up on mental health

If there's ever been a time for a paradigm shift in the way we conceptualise mental health and treat mental illness, it's now.

Medicine and health

ADL live: Matters of the heart

Cardiovascular disease is Australia’s greatest health problem and our biggest killer, costing our economy $7 billion each year. Changing it requires researchers to rethink the problem.

A Different Lens Live

Genetic secrets of almost 2700 cancers uncovered

A landmark analysis of the genetic sequences of hundreds of different cancers offers crucial insights into the origins and growth of the disease's myriad forms.

Medicine and health