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Companies that use more tech to switch to ‘smart’ production lines can get help from HK$10 billion scheme.
<p>A novel gene therapy for hearing loss was administered to six children in China in a clinical trial co-led by investigators at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston and Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Each child had an inherited deafness caused by mutations in the <em>OTOF </em>gene<em>,</em> called DFNB9. The researchers report in a new study in <em>The Lancet</em>, after 26 weeks, five children demonstrated hearing recovery and dramatic improvements in speech perception and the restored ability to conduct ...
Public-private collaboration to fund start-ups, attract and nurture talent pool can help city achieve green tech, finance hub goal, FinTech Association of Hong Kong’s Sandeep Sethi says.
Hong Kong: Duncan Chiu chairs tech committee
Readers discuss the impact of legislation on one of the city’s liveliest attractions, bogus applications for government subsidies, and why doctors should be left out of Hong Kong’s revenue drive.