A research team led by scientists from the 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.
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.
A research team led by LIFS Assoc. Prof. Tom CHEUNG has discovered the constructive role of a protein in driving the skeletal muscle stem cell activation to repair muscle following damage, laying the foundation for further study in the mechanisms of stem cell quiescence-to-activation transition and stem cell-based muscle regeneration.
粵語中有「我食鹽多過你食米」一說。雖然言者未必有意聽者亦無須太認真,但這句俗語卻的確帶出了「食鹽」在我們日常生活中的重要性。而你又可有想過,守候在餐桌角落,重要卻不起眼的食鹽,竟然會與前沿物理研究及抽象數學理論扯上關係呢?
香港科技大學(科大)的研究人員發現一個新方法,利用粒子損耗這種在量子器材中通常需要避免的過程來控制量子態,有機會能為實現前所未有的量子態開闢新的途徑。
香港科技大學(科大)與香港浸會大學(浸大)的研究人員合作,首次破解一種廣泛分佈於西北太平洋深海熱泉(hydrothermal vent) 與冷泉區(hydrocarbon seep)的深海帽貝的種群歷史、遺傳結構,以及群體連...
香港科技大學(科大)及香港理工大學(理大)研究人員開發了體外囊泡重組實驗,並通過結合該實驗途徑及定量質譜分析,發現了囊泡中受特定因子調控被裝入囊泡的特定貨物蛋白,和介導囊泡運輸的新的調控蛋白...
A team of researchers from HKUST has developed an inexpensive, lightweight, and non-toxic (lead-free) photo-battery...
Scientists from HKUST have recently discovered a non-classical nucleation process that can greatly facilitate ice formation on foreign surfaces. This finding lays the foundation to predict and control crystallization processes...