by | May 3, 2020
When Professor Xiang Zhang undertook his qualifying PhD examination at the University of Berkeley, California, in 1994, he was asked to explain how his examiner’s voice could be heard across the table. “I answered, ‘it is because your sound travels by vibrating...
by | Nov 7, 2019
The primary objective of the ‘STEAM’ competition, organised by the Faculty of Engineering and the Arts & Technology Education Centre (ATEC) and supported by the Knowledge Exchange Fund, was to enhance interest in and knowledge of how to engineer musical...
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...
by | Nov 7, 2019
Public health studies are valuable for understanding population profiles and spotting emerging trends. But in order to be useful, there needs to be quality data – and lots of it. That takes both money and laborious collection work. Fortunately, HKU’s School of Public...
by | Nov 7, 2019
The groundbreaking research, which revealed that centromeric DNA is used as a template to produce a non-protein coding centromeric RNA essential for chromosome stability, was done by Associate Professor Dr Karen Wing Yee Yuen, who heads HKU’s Chromosome Biology...
