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HKU and Imperial College London develop a new robotic platform technology for inexpensive diagnosis of reproductive disorder
HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine and Imperial College London collaborated to develop a new robotic platform technology to measure hormone pulse patterns in reproductive disorder. The new biomedical technology enables repeated or even continuous measurement of hormone and other biomolecule concentrations. It is expected to be applied to a wide range of diagnostic scenarios in the future, with the cost largely reduced. The team expects the technology to be applied in clinical diagnosis in 10 years’ time.
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HKU microbiologists discover novel drug compounds for broad-spectrum antiviral therapy including SARS, MERs and H7N9
An HKU team led by Professor Yuen Kwok-yung and Dr Shuofeng Yuan of the Department of Microbiology, has found a chemical compound called AM580 which is able to inhibit the activities of seven to eight types of virus, including the deadly SARS coronavirus, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus and the bird flu H7N9 virus. The compound stops the virus from multiplying by making changes to the host’s cells. As the virus fails to duplicate, it will naturally be wiped out by white blood cells, causing a person to gradually recover from the infection. US provisional patent application has been filed for this important discovery. HKU hopes that clinical trials can be completed in five years and that patients can start using the drug in six to eight years.
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