A research team led by scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has revealed how secondary structure RNA elements control the cleavage activity of the DICER enzyme in both pre-miRNA and short-hairpin RNAs, improving the understanding of the DICER cleavage mechanism and providing a foundation for the design of accurate and efficient short-hairpin RNAs for gene-silencing. Read More...
Trung Duc NGUYEN (upper left), Tam Anh TRINH (right), and Sheng BAO (lower left) are the co-first authors.
香港科技大學(科大)今天推出首個互動海洋環境影像化平台WavyOcean，覆蓋包括粵港澳大灣區海域，整個中國海、以及西太平洋水域。平台將促進海洋研究工作，並為包括明日大嶼等重要政策提供寶貴的數據，以使政策制訂者能於海洋保育和社會發展之間取得平衡。
Researchers at the HKUST and the University of Chicago (UChicago) have shown for the first time how to design the basic elements needed for logic operations using a kind of soft material called liquid crystal, paving the way for a completely novel way of performing computations with potential applications in robotics.