Research Highlights
The Sad Place
Professor Tatia Mei-chun Lee and her team have identified areas in the brain highly related to the intensity of depressive symptoms and shown that greater connectivity in these areas is associated with more intense depressive symptoms.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming deeply embedded into the functioning of our daily lives, often for the better but also with unknown consequences. HKU scholars have been looking at these issues from multiple perspectives.
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Researchers at HKU have been finding new ways to contain the COVID-19 virus and protect people from infection. Professor Chen Honglin and Professor Chen Zhiwei in the Medical Faculty have developed a novel vaccine strategy using an injection and nasal spray that may offer better protection and prevention against asymptomatic transmission of the virus. And engineers led by Professor Mingxin Huang have developed a new stainless steel that is COVID-resistant and effectively kills the virus.
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