Fibre against pounds: Resistant starch supports weight loss

“Our study will provide a practical approach to treat obesity and its related metabolic disorders by resistant starch”

04-Mar-2024 - A diet based on resistant starch promotes a favorable composition of the gut microbiome in obese people. This leads to weight reduction and measurable positive health outcomes such as improved insulin sensitivity. These were the findings of an international research team led by Professor Weiping ...

Catching the wrongdoers in the act

Chemists develop a novel tool to decipher bacterial infections in real time

07-Feb-2023 - A research team led by Professor Xiang David LI from the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a novel chemical tool to reveal how bacteria adapt to the host environment and control host cells. This tool can be used to investigate bacterial interactions with ...

Fight diabetes with exercise

03-Dec-2019 - A common advice by GPs to patients diagnosed with prediabetes is to perform light exercise. Often this slows down or even stops the progression to type 2 diabetes. But not every patient reacts positively to exercise. A study led by Gianni Panagiotou, a computational biologist from Jena, focussed ...

Gamma-Tocotrienol kills prostate cancer stem cells

Latest study reveals that gamma-tocotrienol is effective in targeting prostate cancer stem cells, offering a potential means to prevent cancer growth and disease relapse

27-Jul-2010 - Scientists from Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong have found that gamma-tocotrienol is potent in killing prostate cancer stem cells. This small group of cells is responsible for the initiation of prostate cancer and is resistant to conventional chemotherapy drugs. It causes relapses in the ...

Study suggests that tocotrienol has a common cancer-killing mechanism for different cancer types

12-Apr-2010 - Researchers from Davos Life Science in Singapore, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Hong Kong, have shown that gamma-tocotrienol, a member of the vitamin E family, is potent in killing prostate tumour cells in animal model studies. This research was reported in Pharmacology. ...

Scientists discover natural compound in palm oil kills breast cancer cells

First tocotrienol study to identify upstream regulators that mediate breast cancer progression and invasion

02-Dec-2009 - Scientists from Davos Life Science Singapore have partnered with the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong and the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre, to show that a compound found naturally in palm oil kills breast cancer cells. The compound, called ...

MIT material stops bleeding in seconds

Work could significantly impact medicine

11-Oct-2006 - MIT and Hong Kong University researchers have shown that some simple biodegradable liquids can stop bleeding in wounded rodents within seconds, a development that could significantly impact medicine. When the liquid, composed of peptides, is applied to open wounds, the peptides self-assemble into ...

Genomic instability and premature aging

30-Jun-2005 - Premature aging syndromes often result from mutations in nuclear proteins involved in genomic integrity. For example Hutchinson-Gilford progerial syndrome (HGPS), a severe form of early-onset premature aging, is caused by truncation in the protein lamin A. Lamin A is a nuclear protein important ...