Feb 7, 2022SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Replication in Human Bronchus and Lung Ex VivoEx vivo models show how Omicron replicates in upper and lower respiratory tissues, it's cell entry mechanism and it's pathogenicity....
Jan 27, 2022Surveillance of Rodent Pests for SARS-CoV-2 and Other Coronaviruses in Hong Kong Our teams report surveillance of rodent pests for SARS-CoV-2 and other Coronaviruses during the 4th wave of COVID-19 in early 2021 in...
Jan 26, 2022Countries Primarily Using CoronaVac Vaccines Should Consider mRNA Vaccine Boosters to face OmicronMalik Peiris signed with Leo Poon a new publication in Nature Medicine suggesting that countries primarily using CoronaVac vaccines...
Dec 16, 2021Omicron variant can multiply 70 times faster than other strains in lower respiratory tracts of hostsSouth China Morning Post reports Michael Chan and team findings and warns the overall threat could be ‘very significant’, although there...
Dec 14, 2021Malik Peiris finds Omicron significantly reduces virus neutralisation ability of BioNTech vaccineA recent study jointly conducted by the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) and the Faculty of Medicine, The...
Dec 8, 2021Development of the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus within hoursLeo Poon and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (HKU) developed the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus...