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Newborn Screening (Inborn Errors of Metabolism / Rare Diseases)
With the advancement of testing technology, not only can we assess the risk of specific rare diseases in babies through prenatal carrier screening, we can also ...
CUHK Unveils a Toxic RNA’s Role in Neuronal DNA Damage and Develops New Therapeutic Direction for Huntington’s Disease
(Original Article)Professor Ho Yin Edwin Chan from the School of Life Sciences of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in collaboratio ...
Our children’s magazine, Beanee, is out
Our children’s magazine, Little Bean, is out! Come to the Hong Kong Book Fair during 15-21 July and visit us at the Bbluesky booth (3G-A04) to purchase your copy.
We will also host a soft-launch on 20 July (Mon) at 2:30pm at the Hall 3F-G Concourse, during which Dr Grace Poon of the Hong Kong Society of Inborn Errors of Metabolism will give a sharing. Do come and join!
If you would like to buy a copy of the magazine but can’t make it to the Book Fair, please send us an email.
Ken To: “Not testing would leave me with a little hope.”
With his mother bedridden by Huntington’s Disease, Ken has been her primary caregiver for 16 years. Adding to this challenge is a 50% chance of Ken carrying the same genetic disease himself. Both of Ken’s sisters have gone through tests and confirmed that they do not have the disease. But why would Ken rather not know?