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2023

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HKUST Researchers Identify a Protein as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Age-Related Diseases
A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has identified a key protein that may shed light on how to reverse the aging process using the adult stem cell of skeletal muscle (or muscle stem cells, MuSCs) as a model system.

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Another Crystalline Layer on Crystal Surface as a Precursor of Crystal-To-Crystal Transition
Ice surfaces have a thin layer of water below its melting temperature of 0℃. Such premelting phenomenon is important for skating and snowflake growth. Similarly, liquid often crystallizes into a thin layer of crystal on a flat substrate before reaching its freezing temperature, i.e. prefreezing.

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HKUST Researchers Develop World’s Most Productive Chemical Synthesis of Anthracimycin
A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed the world’s most productive chemical synthesis which could yield antibiotic anthracimycin and anthracimycin B that is 63 times more than current method.
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Preference for naturally talented over hard workers emerges in childhood, HKUST researchers find
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have found that children think more highly of the naturally talented over hard workers, a preference that they carry into adulthood.

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HKUST Breakthrough Identifies Rare Tumor Cell “Spies”
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) developed a novel technology which allows genomic DNA and RNA sequencing to be carried out simultaneously in single cells of both frozen and fresh tissues, and identified rare brain tumor cell "spies" disguised as normal ce