Ocean Science
| 27 Jul 2021
HKUST Researchers Unlock Genomic Secrets of Gutless Deep-sea Tubeworm
Life Science
| 28 Jun 2021
HKUST Scientists Develop Simple Blood Test for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
Life Science
| 8 Jun 2021
HKUST-Beijing Tiantan Hospital Researchers Discover a New Cause for the Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
Ocean Science
HKUST Researchers Unlock Genomic Secrets of Gutless Deep-sea Tubeworm
HKUST researchers decoded for the first time the chromosomal-level genome of a deep-sea gutless tubeworm and how the worm’s co-living bacterial partners...
Life Science
HKUST Scientists Develop Simple Blood Test for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
An international research team led by HKUST has developed a simple but robust blood test from Chinese patient data for early detection and screening of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) for the first...
Life Science
HKUST-Beijing Tiantan Hospital Researchers Discover a New Cause for the Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
Researchers from the HKUST and Beijing Tiantan Hospital have recently uncovered a new gene mutation responsible for the non-familial patients of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM)...
Chemistry
HKUST Scientists Discover How Antibiotics Target Bacterial RNAP to Inhibit Its Gene Transcription
A group of researchers at HKUST has uncovered the mechanism of how DNA is being melted to start bacterial gene transcription and how one class of antibiotics inhibits this process...
Chemistry
HKUST Researchers Develop a Novel Raman Spectroscopy Platform to Characterize Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Dilute Solution
It is challenging to analyze proteins at low concentrations, especially for those in a mixture of various conformations such as intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)...
Physics
Active Liquid Crystal Systems Examined in Search of Autonomous Materials Systems
Liquid Crystals (LC) are widely deployed in display technology and optical fibers. From smartphones in your pockets to large screen TVs, LCs are everywhere...
Chemistry
HKUST Researchers Find Wearing Face Masks May Reduce Cancer Risks Associated with Airborne Carcinogens
Researchers from HKUST have recently proved that apart from protecting us from inhaling respiratory droplets that contain pathogens, surgical masks are also effective in blocking...
Life Science
HKUST Researchers Unlock the Micro-Molecular Physiochemical Mechanism of Dental Plaque Formation
An inter-disciplinary team of researchers has unraveled how a novel microbial small molecule released by...
Chemistry
HKUST Researchers Find Novel Way to Produce New Kind of Chiral Molecules Bringing New Hope for Drug Development
HKUST research team has discovered a method that would allow the production of a new type of spherical molecules not easily obtainable before...
Ocean Science
HKUST Decodes a Deep-sea Vent-endemic Snail Hologenome and Unveils its Living Strategies in the Extreme Environment
A research team led by Prof. Qian Peiyuan (Ocean Science) has published their cutting-edge findings of symbiotic mechanisms of a deep-sea vent snail (Gigantopelta aegis) in the scientific journal Nature Communications...