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Designer proteins enter human trials: a new frontier for brain disease treatment
Designer proteins enter human trials: a new frontier for brain disease treatment For decades, drug discovery has largely been a story of searching — trawling through libraries of natural molecules, tweaking existing compounds, hoping something sticks to the right target. The idea of sitting at a com
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So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really? A Reality Check on the Timelines
So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really? For the better part of a decade, we've been told that artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise medicine. Drugs designed by algorithms. Cures for cancer and Alzheimer's in a fraction of the usual time. Australian patients — like everyone else — wait
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The Alzheimer's Surgery Debate: What New Brain 'Plumbing' Research Means for Patients
The Alzheimer's Surgery Debate: What New Brain 'Plumbing' Research Means for Patients For decades, the story of Alzheimer's disease has been one of slow, unrelenting decline — and of pharmaceutical hopes that keep almost, but not quite, panning out. Now a very different idea is drawing attention: wh
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At-Home Tick Testing Arrives: What It Means for Australians Worried About Tick Bites
At-Home Tick Testing Arrives: What It Means for Australians Worried About Tick Bites Anyone who has plucked a tick from a child's scalp after a bushwalk knows the sinking feeling that follows. Did it bite long enough to matter? Was it carrying anything? Should you drive to a GP now or wait and watch
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Weight-loss jabs and the brain: what the semaglutide-dementia signal means for Australians
Weight-loss jabs and the brain: what the semaglutide-dementia signal means for Australians For a drug that started life as a diabetes treatment and became famous as a weight-loss shortcut, semaglutide keeps finding new tricks. The latest is arguably its most surprising: emerging analyses suggest peo
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Qwen 3.8 27B and the quiet rise of AI you can run at home
Qwen 3.8 27B and the quiet rise of AI you can run at home When people talk about artificial intelligence in 2024 and 2025, the conversation almost always centres on a handful of American giants: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta. But quietly, one of the most consequential shifts in AI accessibility is
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El Niño and the Australian Winter: What Households Should Prepare For
El Niño and the Australian Winter: What Households Should Prepare For When American meteorologists start using words like historic and super to describe an El Niño event, Australians should pay attention. The climate pattern that has US forecasters recalibrating snowfall maps and bracing for a wobbl
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France's court knocks back an under-15 social media ban. What does it mean for Australia?
France's court knocks back an under-15 social media ban. What does it mean for Australia? For anyone watching how democracies are trying to wrestle Big Tech under control, the past fortnight in Paris has been instructive. France's Constitutional Council — the country's highest legal authority on the
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GLM-5.3 and the rise of AI models that code — and hack — on their own
GLM-5.3 and the rise of AI models that code — and hack — on their own When a new large language model launches, the usual headline is a benchmark score. When Chinese lab Z.ai launched GLM-5.3 in late November, the more interesting headline was something its own engineers apparently didn't plan for:
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Every Fucking Website: Why Modern Sites Feel Bloated, Identical and Exhausting
Every Fucking Website: Why Modern Sites Feel Bloated, Identical and Exhausting Open a laptop, click a link, and try to guess the site before the fold loads. Big centred hero image. Two-word headline in a heavy sans-serif. A short subheading in lighter grey. Two buttons: one filled, one outlined. A s
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