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Cut back on meat could help China breathe easier
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A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary study
led by CUHK and the University of Exeter has shown that higher meat consumption poses immediate health risks to everyone and not just to meat eaters. The research links rising meat consumption in China to dangerous air pollution that leads to tens of thousands of premature deaths each year.
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Propelling innovation in Hong Kong and beyond
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CUHK has established six InnoHK Centres covering health, biomedicine, robotics and artificial intelligence under the InnoHK initiative, a HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) scheme of the Hong Kong Government to develop the city as the hub for global research collaboration. In partnership with prestigious universities worldwide, the centres apply CUHK’s world-class discoveries to generate translational impact and cultivate talents in the innovation and technology sector.
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A new gold standard for treating skin disease
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CUHK bio-nanotechnology experts have engineered a gold nanoparticle with the unique ability to enter skin cells and suppress the genetic pathways that cause psoriasis, a long-term skin disease. Animal studies suggested that the nanoparticle can treat psoriasis as effectively as existing approaches, but without side effects such as hair loss or skin wrinkling.
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A biotech breakthrough unlocking the secrets of stress-resistant crops
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Drought-resistant crops are a vital puzzle piece for achieving food security on our warming planet. Now, a breakthrough discovery from CUHK’s life scientists has significantly advanced our understanding of crop resilience by uncovering how plants adapt their internal ‘transport systems’ for proteins in response to extreme stress. Results have been published in Nature Plants.
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AI-powered learning bridging the Deaf and hearing worlds
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CUHK, in collaboration with Google and Japanese counterparts, has launched the world’s first multi-language online sign language game. SignTown allows players to learn signs in an engaging online environment by harnessing machine-learning that recognises three-dimensional sign language movements, heralding a significant step towards promoting social inclusion for the Deaf community.
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Forging a new frontier for highly adaptable smart metamaterials
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A discovery by CUHK physicists could lead to the creation of smart metamaterials whose hardness, softness, compression and expansion can be freely adjusted in response to changes in the external environment. Materials with such flexible elastic properties have vast potential for application across industry and daily life.
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Research on congenital megacolon paves way for new treatment for gut problems in infants
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An international collaboration by CU Medicine has identified a pathogenic process that causes Hirschsprung’s Disease, also known as congenital megacolon, a gastrointestinal disorder in newborn babies, in part by inhibiting a molecule that regulates the early development of gut neural cells. This makes possible new therapeutic strategies that avoid surgical intervention.
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CUHK-led virtual student exchange programme recognised at THE Awards Asia
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Conceived and developed by CUHK, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Virtual Student Exchange programme provides a holistic experience encompassing online academic courses and co-curricular programmes to students of the network. The programme was recently highly commended for International Strategy of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards Asia 2021.
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