by admin | May 3, 2020
HKU’s LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has been at the forefront of research into emerging infectious diseases for decades, producing groundbreaking work on H5N1 and H9N1 bird flus, H1N1 swine flu, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East...
by | May 3, 2020
Research is critical to the pharmacy profession and drug dispensation, but most pharmacy students do not get a deep, first-hand insight into that process. Dr Esther WY Chan of the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy set out to change that by incorporating...
by | May 3, 2020
Exercise is generally recognised as highly beneficial for your health, but it works better on some people than others. New research suggests that people possessing certain gut microbes may in fact gain better metabolic outcomes from exercise than others. “The...
by | Nov 7, 2019
Since embryonic stem cell research began in the 1970s, scientists have typically worked with ‘blastocysts’ – clusters of several dozen embryonic cells that have just started on the path to development. But there have been limitations with this approach, not least...
