by admin | May 22, 2024
Antibiotic resistance is a growing, global problem. In the US, about 70 per cent of bacteria in hospitals are resistant to at least one commonly used antibiotic, and 25 per cent resistant to more than one. In Europe, drug-resistant bacterial infections have led to...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Facebook came in for a harsh grilling earlier this year when the CEO of parent company Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, was accused in a US Senate hearing of having ‘blood on his hands’. The reason was the mental health effects linked to the platform’s algorithms.Social media...
by admin | May 20, 2024
Big pharma have been coming to the HKU-CTC for years to test new drugs, either to meet FDA requirements (multi-centre clinical trials must be conducted on patients from different parts of the world to gain approval) or to test new treatments for diseases that are...
by admin | May 16, 2024
The discovery is the result of a collaboration between HKUMed and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), and originated from introducing the concept of ‘antigenic distance’ and ‘antigen field’ to select the optimal booster vaccine seed strain.“The...
by admin | May 15, 2024
The innovative platform was developed by a cross-disciplinary team comprising researchers from the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, and uses novel screening methods and advanced genetic techniques to identify the specific genetic and cellular factors responsible...
