28 September 2025 – Best Thesis Award!
Huge congratulations to our very own Dr. Gong Lingyan for receiving the MAE Best Thesis Award 2024 for her PhD thesis! What an amazing achievement!!!
14 August 2025 – Lab outing @ Leather making workshop!
It was a day of fun and bonding with Hou Lab today!
The lab members tried leather crafting to make our own card holders, keychains and coin pouch today! It was an experience pretty much like lab work, following protocols and “punching PDMS”, but we all had fun and learned a new skill! We also had an amazing turkish lunch after, joined by Prof Hou’s family. Thank you for the treat boss!
31 July 2025 – Congratulations Dr He!
Heartiest congratulation to Dr. He Linwei who had her convocation today! What an achievement! She will also be continuing her research Hou Lab as a Research Fellow. We are lucky to have her!
23 April 2025 – Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2024 Outstanding Reviewers
Congratulations for Assoc Prof Hou Han Wei for being recognised as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2024 Outstanding Reviewers, for Lab on a Chip!
See the full list HERE!
11 – 12 March 2025 – Singapore Science and Engineering Fair – Silver Award!
Huge congratulations to our intern student Li Chia and Anthea from HCI who participated in the 25th Singapore Science and Engineering Fair and clinched the SILVER AWARD! They presented their work on Stenosis-on-a-Chip, a research project they did while interning at Hou Lab under the care of Hong Boon and Kay. What an amazing achievement!
27 Feb 2025 – IAS Discovery Science Seminar
On 27 February 2025, Associate Professor Hou Han Wei from NTU’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) & Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine gave an exciting talk on “Decentralising and Standardising Blood Processing using Label-free Microfluidics,” bringing cutting-edge science and practical applications together. Organised by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) together with the Graduate Student’s Club of MAE and School of Biological Sciences, this seminar questioned accepted blood processing paradigms and paved the way for a time when quick, easy, and affordable diagnostics will be the standard. Click HERE to read more!
8 Jan 2025 – International Science Youth Forum (ISYF) 2025
Associate Professor Hou has returned to Hwa Chong Institute as one of the Masterclass Speakers for the 17th International Science Youth Forum (ISYF)! ISYF brings together young science enthusiasts worldwide to share their passion for research and technology while fostering lasting friendships. This year’s theme, “Innovation Unified: Towards a Better Future,” highlights the power of collaboration in tackling global challenges through groundbreaking ideas. We hope the students have an amazing time learning about our research work. Here’s what he has covered during the session:
Microfluidics and Healthcare: The Tiny Technology with a BIG Future
Blood is a highly complex biofluid which contains a myriad of information about a person’s health and medical conditions. Due to the vast cellular background, gentle and efficient sample preparation is critical for liquid biopsy and blood-based diagnostics. Microfluidics (aka lab-on-a-chip) technologies are powerful analytical tools as they offer unprecedented detection resolution and sensitivity with potential for automation for clinical adoption. In this talk, I will give an introduction on microfluidics and highlight different microfluidics solutions we have developed recently for blood fractionation, single cell biophysical profiling, and organ-on-chips models for cardiovascular diseases. We envision these scalable platform technologies can facilitate rapid blood analysis of immune and vascular health towards the development of low-cost hematoanalyzers and point-of-care immunoassays. Lastly, I will also share some insights on the importance of establishing strong collaboration among engineers, biologists and clinicians to pursue these interdisciplinary research topics.
23 October 2024 – World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024
Huge congratulations to Associate Professor Hou Han Wei for on being recognized among the top 2% of scientists in Stanford University’s prestigious list once again for 2024! This remarkable achievement is a testament to his dedication, excellence, and the significant impact of his research in the field of engineering. His contributions continue to inspire and elevate the academic and research excellence at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), reinforcing our commitment to innovation and discovery. Congratulations once again on this well-deserved recognition! You can find the detailed ranking of scientists by following this LINK!
31 July 2024 – Meet the Scientist Session at Hwa Chong Institute
Associate Professor Hou was recently invited by the Science Students’ Research Club (SSRC) of Hwa Chong Institute to deliver a talk on our research endeavours, and share what life in research is like. We hope his presentation inspired the students and provided them with valuable insights, perhaps motivating the budding young scientists to pursue a scientific career in their future 😉
24 July 2024 – Collaborative Research Award
Heartiest congratulations to Lingyan for winning the Graduate College Collaborative Research Award! This prestigious award is presented to graduate students who have engaged in outstanding collaborative projects with other laboratories in NTU with fruitful achievements!
17 July 2024 – New selected Cover Art for Advanced Healthcare Materials!
Congratulations to Lingyan for her publication “Label-free Single Microparticles and Cell Aggregates Sorting in Continuous CEll-Based Manufacturing” in Advanced Healthcare Material! Her beautiful illustration for this work has also been selected for the highly coveted Cover Art for the journal! A double achievement!
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18 May 2024 – Gold Award at BES 17th Scientific Meeting
Congrats to Linwei’s FYP student, Arun, for clinching the Gold Award in the recent BES 17th Scientific Meeting! What an amazing achievement!
10 May 2024 – HCI JC Talent Attachment and Grooming (TAG) Programme
We are overjoyed to have Li Chia back with us again with 3 of his fellow school mates from HCI to experience research life with us! They will be attached to our laboratory the next few month to see what research life is really about! We hope you guys have a meaningful and fun time doing experiments with us!
9 – 12 May 2024 – ISEV Annual Meeting at Melbourne, Australia
Prof Hou, Sheng Yuan and Jia Yi were at the the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) Annual Meeting 2024, held at Melbourne, Australia! ISEV is the premier scientific conference in the field of extracellular vesicles, and we are proud to have both Sheng Yuan and Jia Yi to give an individual oral presentation of their EV separation work at such prestigious setting!
4 – 8 May 2024 – CYTO 2024 at Edinburgh, Scotland
CYTO 2024, the 37th annual Congress of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry, is an international conference on the many facets of cytometry science and engineering, held at Edinburgh, Scotland this year! We are extremely excited for Linwei to share her work via an oral presentation and engage with leading experts in the field!
26 March 2024 – ExoArc is on the News!
Our work ExoArc is covered by major news outlets! Recently published in ACS Nano, “High-Throughput Microfluidic Extraction of Platelet-free Plasma for MicroRNA and Extracellular Vesicle Analysis”, ExoArc is a a high-throughput and label-free inertial microfluidic device for isolation of platelet-free plasma from blood for RNA and EV analysis.
Check out the reports on The Straits Times online, Lianhe Zaobao, The New Paper, NTU, The Independent, MSN, and an exclusive LIVE interview on CNA below!
10 March 2024 – Lab on a Chip Commissioning Panel
We are proud to announce that Associate Professor Hou Han Wei is on the Commissioning Panel on the prestigious journal Lab on a Chip! Read more on their Editor-in-Chief and board members HERE!
22 February 2024 – Welcoming Dr Gong Lingyan
Huge congratulations to our new minted Dr Gong Lingyan, who successfully passed her defense with flying colors! A third PhD graduate from Hou Lab!
17 November 2023 – World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023
Heartiest congratulations to Associate Professor Hou Han Wei for securing a position among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in the 2023 list recently released by Stanford University. This remarkable achievement is shared with 32 other exceptional faculty members from the MAE department! You can find the detailed ranking of scientists by following this LINK!
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15 – 19 October 2023 – MicroTas 2023
Hiromi, Linwei, and Kay proudly represented the Hou Lab at this year’s MicroTas conference in Katowice, Poland! Both Hiromi and Linwei delivered outstanding oral presentations, while Kay presented a poster showcasing her impressive PhD work. Congratulations on the well-deserved recognition of your contributions at this prestigious event!
8 June 2023 – Biosensors 2023
Biosensors 2023 took place on 5-8 June 2023 in Busan, celebrating its 33rd anniversary with another excellent line-up of twelve plenary and invited keynote speakers, high-quality contributed oral talks, two summer schools, large poster sessions and an exhibition. We are extremely proud of Lingyan (Poster) and Linwei (Oral) who presented their work at this amazing event!
7 June 2023 – Graduate College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
Heartiest congratulations to Sheng Yuan for being selected as the Runner up for the Graduate College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award in the academic year 2023-2024! Click HERE to read more about this award!
The Graduate College awards are given annually to the most deserving graduating students for their achievements during their studies at NTU, and to their advisors. The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award recognises graduate students who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, passion, and resilience to generate intellectual property and/or translate research ideas from academia to industry, driving innovation and commercialization. What an amazing achievement!
3 May 2023 – Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Outstanding Reviewers
Congratulations for Dr Hou Han Wei for being recognised as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Outstanding Reviewers, for Lab on a Chip!
See the full list HERE!
16 February 2023 – Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!
A big congratulations for Dr Hou Han Wei for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! What a great and well-deserved promotion!
He would like to express his gratitude to his family, colleagues, mentors, collaborators and students for their support and encouragement throughout this journey, as well as his amazing group (current and ex-members) for their hard work and dedication!
11 January 2023 – Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Scholarly Project Award Winner
Congratulation to Sean Pang Yi Wei for winning the First Prize under the category Nutrition, Metabolic and Health with his LKC Scholarly Project done in our lab!
Special thanks to his mentor Hong Boon for his kind guidance throughout the attachment period.
7 December 2022 – Say Hi to Dr Leong!
Congratulation to Dr. Leong Sheng Yuan, for successfully passing his defense!
The second bottle of champagne has been popped for Hou Lab! A moment for celebration!
7 December 2022 – Hou Lab Christmas Lunch and Celebration
It’s our yearly Christmas celebration and gift exchange this year yet again!
Thank you Prof Hou for the Christmas treated at Atrium Restaurant Holiday Inn this year!
We had a scrumptious buffet, followed by our random, mystery gift exchange!
23 – 27 October 2022 – MicroTAS 2022 at HangZhou, China!
Hou Lab was at the hybrid MicroTAS 2022 conference held at HangZhou, China!
Lingyan and Linwei were stoked to be there in-person to have their Oral Presentations, while Chayakorn and Sheng Yuan presented their e-posters remotely.
29 September 2022 – Farewell to Kasia!
Kasia, our visiting PhD student from University of Bath (UK), is ending her 3-months attachment with our lab today!
We will definitely miss her cool and friendly demeanour. Best of luck Kasia, and may our path cross again!
17 June 2022 – IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2022)
International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Early Career Award
Congratulations to Prof Hou for receiving the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Early Career Award at the recent IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2022) held at Marina Bays Sand Singapore!
4 Oral Presentations from Hou Lab at WC2022
We are also extremely proud of Lingyan, Linwei, Sheng Yuan and Hong Boon for giving a splendid Oral Presentation about their own work during the WC2022! Congratulation on the amazing job! It was great seeing our lab alumni, Chengxun, at the conference as well!
24 May 2022 – CoE Townhall and Award Ceremony – 3 Awards for HouLab!
Young Faculty Award (Special Mention)!
Congratulations to Prof Hou for receiving the 2022 CoE Research – Young Faculty Award (Special Mention) for his impressive research achievements! Check out the featured articles on NTU College of Engineering Facebook and Instagram pages!
CHAMPION and Top 5 Most Popular Awards in CoE Video Competition 2022!
Congratulations to Prof Hou, Wan Wei and Hui Min for clinching the First place in the recent CoE Video Competition! They have also won the Top 5 Most Popular award as well, bringing home 2 trophies! Thank you everyone who have cast their votes for us! Check out the featured articles on NTU College of Engineering Facebook and Instagram pages!
Check out our video here:
8 July 2022 – Lab outing at Holey Moley!
Hou lab had a whacking good time with mini golf at Holey Moley Singapore!
It was the first time golf-ing for many of us, and we had plenty of laughter goofing around and competing!
15 May 2022 – Oral Talk Prize at A*STAR Advances in Cell and Gene Therapy (A*CGT) Symposium!
Congratulations to Lingyan for winning a $200 book prize at the A*STAR Advances in Cell and Gene Therapy (A*CGT) Symposium, for her selected talk “Integrated microfluidics for impedance-based cellular monitoring and real-time actuated sorting of single microcarriers”!
The symposium had over 40 invited and selected speakers sharing their advances in research and new innovations, as well as challenges in the field of cell and gene therapy.
16 December 2022 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Chayakorn for his publication “Microfluidic Impedance-Deformability Cytometry for Label-Free Single Neutrophil Mechanophenotyping” in Small! His work has also been selected as the Back Cover of Small, illustrated beautifully by Lingyan!
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17 February 2022 – Chengxun has passed her defense!
Congratulation to Dr. Su Chengxun, for surviving through her defense!
The first PhD student from Hou’s Lab has graduated! A moment worth celebrating with a bottle of bubbles!
26 January 2022 – Press release!
Shengyuan’s publication in Small has been featured on WeChat Official Website!
16 December 2021 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Shengyuan for his publication “Microfluidic Size Exclusion Chromatography (μSEC) for Extracellular Vesicles and Plasma Protein Separation” in Small! His work has also been selected as the Front Cover of Small!
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10 December 2021 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Chengxun publication “A Facile and Scalable Hydrogel Patterning Method for Microfluidic 3D Cell Culture and Spheroid-in-Gel Culture Array” in Biosensors!
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07 September 2021 – Press release!
Chengxun’s publication in Lab on a Chip has been featured on several media outlets!
- Singapore builds 3D model to study cardiovascular diseases – by Biospectrum Asia
- 3D model to study vascular diseases – by Mirage News
- Singapore researchers develop novel 3D model to study vascular diseases – by Vascular News
- Novel 3D Model Aids Vascular Disease Research – by Labmate Online
- 新加坡研究人员开发了新的3D模型来研究血管疾病 – by e-Biotrade
- 3D model to study vascular diseases – by NTU
- Radio Interview by CNA938!
17 August 2021 – Press release!
Hui Min‘s publication in Lab on a Chip has been featured on several media outlets!
- 南大研发芯片 可快速评估糖尿病患者血管健康 – by Zaobao
- Assessing risk of vascular inflammation for diabetes patients – by Medical Xpress
- Radio Interview by CNA938!
- Featured on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – by NTU
28 May 2021 – ISAC Innovator Program!
Congratulations to Assistant Prof Hou for being selected as one of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) Innovator!
This program will offer networking and access to experts in key areas of technology translation to the market, including intellectual property protection and licensing, corporate organization and funding, sales and marketing, production and regulatory issues, as well as ample opportunities for interaction with experienced entrepreneurs and industry professionals to obtain industry feedback on priorities in the commercial cytometry market.
Read more about it HERE!
24 May 2021 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Hui Min for her publication “Direct Isolation of Circulating Extracellular Vesicles from Blood for Vascular Risk Profiling in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” and back cover in Lab on a Chip! The publication is also listed as one of Lab on a Chip HOT articles 2021!
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4 May 2021 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Chengxun for her publication “A novel human arterial wall-on-a-chip to study endothelial inflammation and vascular smooth muscle cell migration in early atherosclerosis” and back cover in Lab on a Chip! Her publication is also featured on ImagenScience!
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20 March 2021 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Chayakorn for his publication “Label-free quantitative lymphocyte activation profiling using microfluidic impedance cytometry” in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical!
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11 February 2021 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Lingyan for her publication “Direct and Label-Free Cell Status Monitoring of Spheroids and Microcarriers Using Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry” and Frontispiece in Small!
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10 July 2020 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Nishanth for his publication “Recapitulating atherogenic flow disturbances and vascular inflammation in a perfusable 3D stenosis model” in Biofabrication!
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6 July 2020 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Hui Min for her publication “Increased monocyte-platelet aggregates and monocyte-endothelial adhesion in healthy individuals with vitamin D deficiency” in FASEB!
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27 – 31 October 2019 – MicroTAS 2019 at Basel, Switzerland!
Prof Hou, Chayakorn and Hui Min had a blast at MicroTAS 2019 held in Basel, Switzerland this year! Both Chayakorn and Hui Min had an Oral Presentation each and were well-received!
25 Sept 2019 – Press release
We are featured on several media platforms (Lianhe Zaobao, Lianhe Wanbao, Channel News Asia, Capital 958FM, Capital 958FM Facebook, Channel 8 online, News Medical, PhysOrg, NTU news release) for our work on “Integrated inertial-impedance cytometry for rapid label-free leukocyte isolation and profiling of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)” in Lab on a Chip! (DOI)
24 Apr 2019 – Emerging Investigator Series
Check out Dr. Hou’s feature interview with Lab on the Chip Blog as he talks about our most recent publication, the lab’s research direction, as well as some interesting questions regarding his personal life!
You can read more about the interview HERE and Chayakorn’s latest publication HERE!
15 Apr 2019 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Chayakorn for his publication “Integrated inertial-impedance cytometry for rapid label-free leukocyte isolation and profiling of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)” in Lab on a Chip – Emerging Investigator Series!
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14 Nov 2018 – New Publication!
Congratulations to HuiMin for her publication “Multiplexed label-free fractionation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells for rapid identification of monocyte-platelet aggregates” in Analytical Chemistry!
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11 – 15 November 2018 – MicroTAS 2018 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan!
Prof Hou, Nishanth, Chayakorn and Hui Min had a fruitful MicroTAS 2018 held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan this year! Both Nishanth and Chayakorn had an Oral Presentation each while Hui Min presented two of her work as Poster presentation!
11 Oct 2018 – #2 Most Downloaded!
Check out our publication “A tunable microfluidic 3D stenosis model to study leukocyte-endothelial interactions in atherosclerosis” which is currently the #2 most downloaded article on APL bioengineering! Click the article to read more!
Click HERE to read our publication!
Click HERE to read the Facebook article by AIP Publishing!
3 Aug 2018 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Chayakorn for his publication “Label-free leukocyte sorting and impedance-based profiling for diabetes testing” in Biosensors and Bioelectronics!
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24 July 2018 – MacRitchie Tree Top Walk!
The lab has successfully completed a 7 km hike up MacRitchie Tree Top Walk, a 250 m long freestanding suspension bridge, earning themselves a beautiful bird’s eye view of the canopy and a scrumptious lunch after.
22 – 23 June 2018 – The Interstellar Initiative
Dr. Hou took part in the Interstellar Initiative mentoring workshop held at the New York Academy of Sciences conference center in downtown New York City on June 22 – 23, 2018.
8 Feb 2018 – Frontispiece in Small!
Congratulations to Hui Min for her frontispiece in Small (Volume 14, Issue 6).
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2 Jan 2018 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Nishanth for his publication “A tunable microfluidic 3D stenosis model to study leukocyte-endothelial interactions in atherosclerosis” in APL Bioengineering!
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This article was featured on APL Bioengineering (AIP) and several other media outlets such as ScienceDaily and EETimes.
1 December 2017 – Feature in Nov – Dec Issue of NTU Continuum
Dr. Hou was featured in the NTU Continuum (Nov-Dec issue) on the topic “Breaking New Grounds in the War Against Diabetes”.
23 November 2017 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Hui Min for her publication “A Novel Microdevice for Rapid Neutrophil Purification and Phenotyping in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” in Small!
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24 October 2017 – Poster Award from Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB)
Congrats to Hui Min for winning the Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB) award for her poster at MicroTas 2017 (Savannah, Georgia, USA)! Read more about her work here!
22 – 26 October 2017 – MicroTAS 2017 at Savannah, Georgia, USA!
Prof Hou, Chayakorn and Nishanth attended MicroTAS 2017 held in Savannah, Georgia, USA this year! Both Chayakorn and Nishanth had an Oral Presentation each and their work were very well-received by the audience!
29 September 2016 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Hui Min for her publication “Rapid and label-free microfluidic neutrophil purification and phenotyping in diabetes mellitus” in NPG Asia Materials!
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18 July 2017 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Nishanth for his publication “Micro-engineered perfusable 3D vasculatures for cardiovascular diseases” in Lab on a Chip!
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3 May 2017 – Winning the War Against Diabetes Forum
At the Winning the War Against Diabetes Forum, Dr. Hou was invited to give a presentation on “Microtechnologies for Immune and Vascular Health Profiling in Diabetes“, and be part of a panel discussion to talk about “Diabetes in Singapore: Present and Future Challenges”.
5 April 2017 – We’ve moved!
On this day, we have officially moved from our NTU Yunnan Campus (Experimental Medicine Building) to the Novena Campus (Clinical Sciences Building)!
27 March 2017 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Dr. Hou for his publication “Advances in Neutrophil Testing In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” in Current Research in Diabetes & Obesity Journal!
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12 March 2017 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Chayakorn for his publication “Advances in Single Cell Impedance Cytometry for Biomedical Applications” in Micromachines!
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5 March 2017 – NTU-LKC Openhouse
This year at the NTU Open House, Dr. Hou and Hui Min showcased our lab at the Experimental Sciences Building to prospective students interested in the LKC medical school.
6 July 2016 – New Publication!
Congratulations to Dr. Hou Han Wei for his publication “Rapid and label-free microfluidic neutrophil purification and phenotyping in diabetes mellitus” in Scientific Reports!
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This article was also featured in various media outlets, including The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, ScienceDaily, News Medical.net! Dr. Hou was also interviewed by Mediacorp Channel 8 on this work.
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