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2013-04-07 Articles we read this week

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Genetics Zu Y, Tong X, Wang Z, Liu D, Pan R, Li Z, Hu Y, Luo Z, Huang P, Wu Q, Zhu Z, Zhang B, Lin S. TALEN-mediated precise genome modification by homologous recombination in zebrafish. Nat Methods. 2013 Feb 24. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2374. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23435258. Chang N, Sun C, Gao […]

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Has education destroyed our creativity?

Monday, March 25, 2013

Recently I have got the privilege to share my research work with secondary school students. During the talk, it was obvious to me  that the younger the students were, the more imaginative the questions that they could come up with and the more fearless they were in asking questions. One reason is that the eduction […]

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Issues in scientific communiciation

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Just come across these two great TED talks by Ben Goldacre that talks about how the information in scientific literature can be distorted and why not all information that is essential for medical advance can be found in the literature. It is really a flaw in the research system and human nature that positive and […]

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CUHK Ophthalmology Forum 2012 cum HKEH 20th Anniversary Symposium at the Hong Kong Eye Hospital

Saturday, January 12, 2013

In December 2012, I was invited to give a plenary lecture in the CUHK Ophthalmology Forum 2012 cum HKEH 20th Anniversary Symposium at the Hong Kong Eye Hospital. This was a meeting right after the The 8th International Symposium of Ophthalmology, in which I shared with a group of international delegates about our vision on […]

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Is professor career stressful?

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Forbes has just published an article about professor’s career as the No. 1 of the least stressful jobs of 2013, and that has caused a huge uproar by many colleagues in the comments. Apparently, the article was written with misconceptions of what a professor’s life is like, based on innuendos and information from CareerCast. While […]

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2012 Christmas Party

Saturday, January 5, 2013

A highlight of a memorable evening!

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More people dying from obesity than malnutrition

Saturday, December 29, 2012

From the Metro news: World now has ‘more people dying from obesity than malnutrition’

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A shit paper…

Saturday, December 29, 2012

is published in PLOS neglected tropical diseases. However, the study itself is certainly not shitty. An In-Depth Analysis of a Piece of Shit: Distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and Hookworm Eggs in Human Stool  

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The 8th International Symposium of Ophthalmology – Hong Kong

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Fai has just participated in the 8th ISO-HK from December 14-16, 2012 and interacted with many colleagues around the world.

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The visit of a delegation from the Joint Shantou International Eye Center

Thursday, November 22, 2012

On 12th November 2012, Prof. Calvin Chi-Pui Pang from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prof. Haoyu Chen from the Joint Shantou International Eye Center (JSIEC), Shantou University & the Chinese University of Hong Kong visited the Leung Lab and the research facilities at Purdue University. Prof Pang and Chen first met with Prof. […]

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