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Are tiny grazers the new hope for Caribbean reefs?
Credit: J. Ruvalcaba, STRI Thirty years ago a mysterious disease wiped out long-spined black sea urchins across the Caribbean, leading...
HKU biologist reveals important role cities play in conservation of threatened species
Credit: Peter and Michelle Wong The exhaustive international trade of wildlife has pushed many species to the brink of extinction....
Hong Kong hosts more than a quarter of all marine species recorded in China
Credit: Dr. Qiu Jianwen, Dr. Stella Wong and Mr. Gomen See Hong Kong is best known as a bustling harbour,...
A colorful yet little known snout moth genus from China with 5 new species
Credit: Dr. Mingqiang Wang A group of beautiful snout moths from China was revised by three scientists from the Institute...
Mouse model points to potential new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
Philadelphia, PA, January 5, 2017 - Treatment with an inhibitor of 12/15-lipoxygenase, an enzyme elevated in patients with Alzheimer's disease...
Harmonization needed!
Since the first reports on a dramatic increase in microplastic contamination in the sea twenty years ago, research efforts have...
Radar reveals meltwater’s year-round life under Greenland ice
Credit: Marco Tedesco/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory When summer temperatures rise in Greenland and the melt season begins, water pools on the...
New therapeutic agent proves more effective treatment for advanced prostate cancer
Credit: Kambiz Rahbar, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, and Wolfgang Peter Fendler, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine,...
Better the devil you know
Credit: Peter H. Becker Many birds choose partners for life - it offers many advantages and often improves a couple's...
Hot weather not to blame for Salmonella on egg farms
Credit: Photo by Andrea Kratzenberg. New research conducted by the University of Adelaide shows there is no greater risk of...
Buzzing the vagus nerve just right to fight inflammatory disease
Credit: Georgia Tech / Robert Butera Is a treatment only making things better or maybe also making some things a...
New microscope chemically identifies micron-sized particles
Credit: Ryan Sullenberger, MIT Lincoln Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a microscope that can chemically identify individual micron-sized particles....
Two HKU architects receive RIBA Award
Credit: The University of Hong Kong Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, Associate Professors in the Faculty of Architecture at the...
Artificial intelligence seen as a key technology to enable better balancing of UK’s energy market
Upside Energy and Heriot-Watt University have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant by Innovate UK to maximise the...
Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards granted for pioneering ideas in cancer research
New York, NY (January 5, 2017) - The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced that nine scientists with novel approaches...
Telecommunications light amplifier could strengthen integrity of transmitted data
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Dawn Tan Imagine a dim light which is insufficiently bright enough to illuminate a room. An...
New drugs, higher costs offer little survival benefit in advanced lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center According to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the...
NYSCF and Personal Genome Project announce availability of fully sequenced stem cell lines
New York, NY (January 5, 2017) - The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute and the Personal Genomes...
NIH-sponsored expert panel issues clinical guidelines to prevent peanut allergy
An expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of...
Genetics play a significant role in immunity, new research finds
Nearly three quarters of immune traits are influenced by genes, new research from King's College London reveals. The study published...