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Before any new therapy or medicine is placed on the shelves of a pharmacy, it needs to be tested in humans first.
What does that process look like? And who are the people testing these new drugs?
Jonathan Webb goes behind the curtain of clinical trials with health reporter Lauren Roberts to take a look at what happens in Australia.
You can binge more episodes of the Lab Notes podcast with science editor and presenter Jonathan Webb on the ABC Listen app (Australia). You'll find episodes on animal behaviour, human health, space exploration and so much more.
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Featuring:
Lauren Roberts, health reporter
Further information:
Richard Scolyer encouraged Australians to enrol in research. Here's how to get involved
Australian Clinical Trials
This episode of Lab Notes was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri people.

A team from Caltech is using ultrasound to reveal processes at work one kilometre under Antarctic ice.

AI chatbots are helping to crack long-standing mathematical problems, including some of the famous Paul Erdős conjectures that have remained unsolved for nearly 80 years. It's not just researchers finding these solutions, either: it's also amateur mathematicians armed with off-the-shelf ChatGPT.Jonathan Webb wheels out the chalkboard with Dr Melissa Lee to discuss how AI is shaping the field of mathematics, and if anyone can be a mathematician these days.
You can binge more episodes of the Lab Notes podcast with science editor and presenter Jonathan Webb on the ABC Listen app (Australia). You'll find episodes on animal behaviour, human health, space exploration and so much more.
Get in touch with us: [email protected]
Featuring:
Dr Melissa Lee, Senior Lecturer Monash University
Further information:
An AI solution to an 80‑year‑old problem has shocked mathematicians
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
This episode of Lab Notes was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri people.

We visit a wildlife sanctuary north of Canberra where enclosures are being built to quarantine the eastern quoll, a species already endangered. Will it work and is this a long-term solution?