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Re:Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Al... by TaupeRanger on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:17PM (#48543493)
Flagged. Nonsense puff piece by the university. The headline itself is beyond terrible - this is a mouse model and would need years of further successful research to be able to say that it "restores memory" in any meaningful way, let alone in actual humans.
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Re:Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Al... by janalsncm on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:35PM (#48545270)
Press release should be replaced by actual journal article, which doesn’t omit “mouse model”.
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Re:Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Al... by Selkirk on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:07PM (#48544172)
The linked article is intentionally misleading by omission because they left out "in mice" in the university driven article and they certainly know the relevance and consequences of leaving it out.
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Re:Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Al... by musiciangames on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:47PM (#48543909)
Yes, it’s really disappointing to see Monash doing that - not a mention of mouse or mice.
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Re:Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Al... by contingencies on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:19PM (#48544337)
AFAIK the background is the 'big 5' universities in Australia have a fat loan due which they took out 10 years ago and can't pay. Their primary income source was foreign exchange students and that demand has fallen off a cliff. So they're shedding academics and puffing like crazy right now. It seems in the near future Australian tertiary education will be highly corporatized and move to a more American model than our European-style history.
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Re:Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Al... by markdown on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:44PM (#48547413)
> foreign students

FTFY. Not exchange students.

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Re:Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Al... by contingencies on Monday June 15, 2026 @06:34PM (#48547940)
Erp, well caught.
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