Press releases

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Variants associated with blood cell traits and Routing rogue bacteria for destruction

Researchers at RIKEN created a new graphite nanotube that conducts electricity when exposed to light, which could lead to efficient solar batteries based on organic materials and developed molecular devices that can respond to various types of stimuli, similar to living organisms.

Neurons may be casual initially about their interactions, but get very picky when it comes to making a lasting synaptic connection

Media Advisory - The Deputy Minister for Science Technology and Innovation, Y.B. Tuan Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof will be officiating the 3rd International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) Regional Consultation in Asia & the Pacific on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 9.15 am at Hotel G, Gurney Drive, Penang, Malaysia.

PolyU has moved up from the 224th place in 2008 to the 195th place in the "Times Higher Education-QS World University Ranking 2009" of the Times Higher Education Supplement.

A personalized medicine research agenda, Mapping diversity, Let's celebrate human genetic diversity, Scanning and linking for autism, Quantum fingerprints of chaos, Where is the heritability?, Transition to an icehouse world, Protein link to long life, Photonic crystal guides electromagnetic waves with no losses and Erupting without warning

In Nature China this week - Many middle-aged women in Chongqing are short and overweight because of severe malnutrition in their early years of life

THIRTY years of Asian women's involvement in Britain's workplace struggles is celebrated in a new exhibition at the Women's Library in London.

In the latest World's Best Design Schools survey, the Master of Design (Design Strategies) programme of PolyU has been rated among the world's best "design thinking programmes".

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals including Cell Biology: Inner workings of extending cell life, Genetics: Reprogramming gene plays a role in cancer and Genetics: Variants associated with bone mineral density

Photosynthetic processes in an artificial system can be described accurately by a quantum physical theory

Intelligent search engines called PosMed and PosMed-plus make it easier for researchers to identify candidate genes for cloning

Press Release - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is proud to have the largest number of International Academy for the Study of Tourism (IAST) members in any university worldwide.

The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) received the Mahathir Science Award 2009 at an official ceremony held by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia on 28 September 2009 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur.

Press Release - A review in Science this week outlines the main theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum simulation and emphasizes some of the challenges and promises of this fast-growing field.

Summaries of newsworthy papers Seismology: Measuring fault strength, Atmospheric chemistry: Reach for the clouds and Vive la resistance!

In Nature China this week - Researchers in China have generated healthy liver cells from human skin cells, making stem cell treatment an ethically acceptable alternative to liver transplantation

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University hosted a Forum on "School Recovery after the 512 Wenchuan earthquake" on 28 Sep to deepen the understanding of the general public of the difficulties and challenges faced by the quake-affected schools in Sichuan.

The good news is tougher soft body armour could be in the making. Researchers of the Faculty of Applied Science, found that natural rubber latex (NRL) coated fabrics are suitable to reduce injury, soreness or trauma from bullet shots or hit by hard objects. The NRL coated fabrics seems usable as new material to make soft body armour.

The virtual campus of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Second Life was opened on 25 September by Professor Timothy W. Tong, PolyU President, and Professor Suleyman Demokan, PolyU Vice President (Academic Development).

Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection? A public discussion with Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, and Clotilde Fonseca

IDRC has joined forces with academic and research institutes in sub-Saharan Africa to train new scholars and repair a tattered academic infrastructure. These are vital steps in addressing the region's critical social challenges.

Women in Arab countries are making human rights history as they break down barriers to being treated as full citizens in their own countries. In the past few years, women in Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco married to foreigners have won the right to convey their citizenship to their children.

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Photonics: Time-domain telescope, Immunology: Driving autoreactive cells to distraction, Physics: X-rays produced by laser-driven particle accelerator, Nature: Sex chromosome’s role in species diversification, Geoscience: Big breaks during Wenchuan earthquake and Neuroscience: Attracted to punishment

Collaboration between RIKEN and J-TEC on research into age-related macular degeneration may lead to new treatment

Muon research at the RIKEN–RAL Muon Facility could lead to commercially viable fusion technology for clean energy generation

Plants biosynthesize a wide variety of compounds by processes that involve enzymes...

Porous coordination polymers that strongly adsorb polar guest molecules can be made using a ligand with separated positive and negative charges

As the number of children who have mobile phones has risen to 40% of elementary school students, 70% of middle school students, and 90% of high school students, e-Safety Education is vital in order to protect children from the myriad mobile phone dangers to which they are exposed.

World trade has been expanding and driving economic growth in many countries over the past several decades. The trade value of the world as a whole increased more than eight-fold from 1980 to 2007, to approximately 14 trillion dollars.