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Alysia Robertson, pictured sitting on a wall with a green garden behind her, has won an award for her research on group therapy leadership.

People are keen to go to therapy but it can be really difficult to get them in the door. Alysia Robertson wants to make it easier.

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Associate Professor Simon Jiang in his lab at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU.

The benefits of personalised medicine programs extend far beyond the individual patient.

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Pill testing demonstration at CanTEST in Canberra.

The majority of drug-related deaths at Australian music festivals over the past two decades have involved young people combining multiple illicit substances with alcohol, according to a first-of-its-kind study involving an expert from The Australian National University (ANU).

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Associate Professor Azure Hermes. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU

The most comprehensive analysis of Indigenous Australians’ genomes collected to date has revealed an “abundance” of DNA variations – some of which have never been reported anywhere else in the world – paving the way for new, tailored treatments that address health inequities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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Top image: Professor Carola Vinuesa (left) with Kathleen Folbigg. Photo: ANU

Kathleen Folbigg was imprisoned over the deaths of her four children. Then, an ANU-led breakthrough uncovered the medical mystery behind the tragedy.

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Python snake on a branch

The world’s first case of a new parasitic infection in humans has been discovered by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and the Canberra Hospital after they detected a live eight-centimetre roundworm from a carpet python in the brain of a 64- year-old Australian woman.

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Nathan Reynolds in his lab at JCSMR, the ANU College of Health & Medicine at ANU in Canberra.

It was during a psychology course that Nathan Reynolds learned he was more interested in the brain rather than the mind.

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A 3D printed stencil of the DECTIN-1 protein

A protein in the immune system programmed to protect the body from fungal infections is also responsible for exacerbating the severity of autoimmune diseases such as irritable bowel disease (IBS), type 1 diabetes, eczema and other chronic disorders, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found.

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Does ChatGPT ever give you the eerie sense you’re interacting with another human being? Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached an astounding level of realism, to the point that some tools can even fool people into thinking they are interacting with another human.

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