Research Achievement

Hai Kang Life Corporation Limited has strong scientific research strength. It has published many scientific articles and papers in the world’s leading scientific journals: New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature Biotechnology and Science. We have successfully attracted many international organizations (such as WHO) to share our knowledge and experience to the world.

HKLife expands the avian influenza rapid testing system to testing platform and applies it to the detection of other diseases such as the early tests of swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease, Newcastle disease, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. At the same time, HKLife provides the strong weapons for the early diagnosis of these diseases. This technology platform strongly enhances the vulnerable spots in plague prevention, which causes the high attention of international society and academic world. Many academic publications like Nature etc. have conducted the exclusive interview on it.

Representative Articles

Gu J et al. (2007) H5N1 infection of the respiratory tract and beyond: a molecular pathology study. Lancet. 370: 1137-45. (Journal Impact Factor:25.8)

Yu ACH et al. (2004) Boosting the sensitivity of real-time PCR SARS detection by simultaneous reverse transcription and target gene pre-amplification. New Engl J Med 350:1577-79.

Fung YW et al. (2004) The necessity of molecular diagnosis for avian influenza. Nat Biotechnol 22:267.

Yu ACH (2004) The difficulties of testing for SARS. Science 303:468.

Yu ACH (2004) Lab-on-a-Chip Maker Looks to Put Hong Kong on Biotech Map

FMDV

A method to detect major serotypes of foot-and-mouth disease virus.Biochem Biophys Res Commun.297(2002)267-274.
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene sequence from foot-and-mouth disease virus in Hong Kong.Biochem Biophys Res Commun.308(2003)899-905.
Serotype and VP1 gene sequence of a foot-and-mouth disease virus from Hong Kong (2002).Biochem Biophys Res Commun.302(2003)715-721.
Genome comparison of a novel foot-and-mouth disease virus with other FMDV strains. Biochem Biophys Res Commun.323(2004)336-342.
Detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus by nucleic acidsequence-based amplification (NASBA).Vet Microbiol.126(2008)101–110.

AIV

Rapid and sensitive detection of avian influenza virus subtype H7 using NASBA.Biochem Biophys Res Commun.300(2003)507-515.
Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification methods to detect avian influenza virus. Biochem Biophys Res Commun.313(2003)336-342.
Comparison of nucleic acid-based detection of avian influenza H5N1 with virus isolation.Biochem Biophys Res commun.302(2003)377-383.
A NASBA Method to Detect High- and Low-Pathogenicity H5 Avian Influenza Viruses.Avian Dis.47(2003)1069-1074.

NDV

Detection of Newcastle disease virus using nucleic acid sequence-based amplification. Biologicals.35(2007)13-18.

HKLife was invited to participate in diagnosis seminar held by international organizations ：

In February of 2007, HKLife attended the ”People’s Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) Diagnosis Seminar” co-held by WHO, ISIRV and FIND as representative under invitation—sharing avian influenza diagnosis experience. This conference was held in WHO’s headquarter in Geneva from Feb.19th, 2007 to Feb 20th, 2007.