News & Stories

2023

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Life Science, Research
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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HKUST Scientists Achieve Groundbreaking First by Applying Artificial Intelligence for Early Risk Forecasting of Alzheimer’s Disease
The new AI-based model uses genetic information to predict an individual’s risk of developing AD well before symptoms occur.
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HKUST researchers unveil long-sought noncanonical cleavage mechanism in miRNA biogenesis
To discover and thoroughly demonstrate the newly identified noncanonical cleavage mechanism, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team, led by Prof.
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One Shot, Three Cures
A team of HKUST researchers has developed a method to customize materials to treat three chronic conditions and potentially many others.
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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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Research, Chemistry, Antibiotics
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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Psychological Well-being
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