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一个蛋白质研究峰回路转的故事
这个故事的主角是2007年邵逸夫生命科学与医学奖得主罗伯特‧尼科威教授的得奖研究，G蛋白偶联受体（G Protein-Coupled Receptors, GPCR）蛋白质家族的其中一个成员。尼科威教授后来亦因同一研究课题于2012年与布莱恩‧科比尔卡教授共同获得诺贝尔化学奖。GPCR是介导细胞及器官对药物和激素反应的主要受体系统…
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The Twists and Turns of Studying A Protein
The central character of the story is a member of a family of proteins for which Professor Robert J Lefkowitz was awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science & Medicine in 2007, and then in 2012, shared with Professor Brian K Kobilka the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The family is the G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCR), the major receptor system that mediates the response of cells and organs to drugs and hormones…
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一個蛋白質研究峰迴路轉的故事
這個故事的主角是2007年邵逸夫生命科學與醫學獎得主羅伯特‧尼科威教授的得獎研究，G蛋白偶聯受體（G Protein-Coupled Receptors, GPCR）蛋白質家族的其中一個成員。尼科威教授後來亦因同一研究課題於2012年與布萊恩‧科比爾卡教授共同獲得諾貝爾化學獎。GPCR是介導細胞及器官對藥物和激素反應的主要受體系統…
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Clinical Management of Coronavirus Disease 2019
Dr Wu Tak Chiu, Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases in one of our busiest public hospitals in Hong Kong provides a glimpse of the management approach, the multi-prone treatment methods in dealing with the unprecedented situation…
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Prime Numbers and Us
A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that cannot be written as the product of two natural numbers except 1 and itself. In our daily lives, the applications of mathematics are usually the calculation of elementary arithmetic. There is, therefore, no apparent connection between prime numbers and our daily lives. In fact, there is discernible linkage…
