Hong Kong's oldest university, where virology, semiconductor physics and planetary science are pursued with equal intensity.
Comparing variants from BA.1 to JN.1 under identical conditions, HKUMed researchers found the most recent lineages replicate better in intestinal than respiratory tissue.
A pooled analysis spanning roughly 48.7 million participants places a familiar stomach bacterium in an unfamiliar role, with the heaviest burden in the Western Pacific.
By spending computing power to reconstruct damaged sequences, HKU engineers tolerate error rates four times higher than existing methods allow.
Rising moisture capacity is offset by increasing dryness, which evaporates rain and suppresses cloud formation inside the storm.
Two transistors per cell instead of sixteen, built from molybdenum disulfide, and roughly a hundred million times faster than a processor at pattern matching.
ClairS generates synthetic tumour samples by mixing normal sequencing data, then uses long reads to find mutations short-read methods miss.
Long-read single-cell sequencing of more than 210,000 cells uncovered thousands of unannotated transcripts, some present only in tumour tissue.
Removing aerosols lets more sunlight reach the ground, and in humid regions cities heat faster than the countryside that can still evaporate water.
Silicon carbide transistors reproduce neuronal spiking at 10 millikelvin, offering quantum computers a controller that can sit beside the qubits.
Micron-sized particles that break into nanoparticles in the nose deliver drugs along the nose-to-brain route, bypassing the blood-brain barrier.
Flexible polycrystalline membranes produce stable voltage when bent, overturning a classification that had held since the early twentieth century.
An HKU-led instrument will map landing-site mineralogy, track dust storms and search for hydrous minerals from Tianwen-3's service module.
CardiOmicScore combines proteins and metabolites rather than fixed genetic risk, improving on polygenic scores for early detection.
Isotope work across six species shows the largest and fastest-growing clams lean hardest on their algal partners, and are therefore most exposed.
Negative refraction has needed elaborate artificial structures; in chromium sulfur bromide it emerges from magnetic order alone, switchable with a magnet.
The property that makes classical simulation intractable actually speeds up its quantum counterpart, suggesting a larger advantage than assumed.
ANKLE1 cuts only when DNA is stretched or supercoiled, resolving the chromatin bridges that otherwise break and scramble genomes.
Numerical modelling classified six planetary tectonic styles and found a seventh behaviour that alternates between two modes of activity.