Research by Professor Li Zhang, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering on developing a magnetic slime robot that could carry out tasks in the human body where it is difficult for conventional medical instruments to reach, providing ideal solutions for minimally invasive surgery and drug delivery.

Research by the Faculty of Medicine identifies for the first time distinct gut microbiome profiles associated with long COVID and the distinct gut microbial signatures can be used for prediction, diagnosis and treatment of long COVID.

Professors from the School of Chinese Medicine and Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine give their expert opinions on the effectiveness of Chinese medicine and its integrative use with western medicine to alleviate symptoms of COVID-19.

Research by Professor Li Zhang, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering on developing a magnetic slime robot that could carry out tasks in the human body where it is difficult for conventional medical instruments to reach, providing ideal solutions for minimally invasive surgery and drug delivery.

Research by the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine reveals a higher prevalence of dry eye disease among post-COVID-19 patients.

Joint research by the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages on a computer game “Sign Town” deploying AI-based sign language recognition to help hearing people better communicate with the deaf community.

Joint research by Professor Patrick Chun Man Wong, Stanley Ho Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages discovers that the stories people that are inspired by songs differ by culture.

Joint research by the Faculty of Medicine discovers a new inflammatory activation pathway in blood vessels after SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Research by Professor Siew Chien Ng, Associate Director, Centre for Gut Microbiota Research, and Professor Francis KL Chan, Dean of Medicine and Director of the Centre on the association of a distinct gut microbial profile with “long COVID”.

An article contributed by the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response on the results of their survey about home quarantine and the home care guideline they proposed.