Jakson Luk
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Jakson Luk
@jaksonluk.bsky.social
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
- George Santayana

Infection Microbiologist/Bioengineer 🧬🦠🧫🔧🔬. Eurasian-Hongkonger. Born in British Hong Kong 🇬🇧🐲🦁. Stand for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights.
I am thrilled to share that the work from @maxgg.bsky.social team @crick.ac.uk engineering a lung-on-chip from human iPSC is published in #ScienceAdvances @science.org in the new year.
January 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Jakson Luk
Lab-grown lung models have traditionally been grown from a mixture of cells, making it hard to tell how a disease or treatment will affect an individual person.

These new models by @maxgg.bsky.social’s team and AlveoliX are grown from a single person’s stem cells ⤵️ www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
Built to breathe: mini ‘lungs’ recreate individual response to infection
Lung-on-chip device exposes earliest stages of tuberculosis infection, and opens doors to investigate diversity in disease progression and personalised treatment.
www.crick.ac.uk
January 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Keir Starmer and the Labour party refused to condemn the people’s court ruling of the Hong Kong 47, intervened the visit of former 🇹🇼 president to kowtow to 🇨🇳. Not sure if the labour is serving the 🇬🇧 voters or President Xi Jingping. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Taiwan leader was due to visit UK for two days in October, leak shows
Exclusive: letter reveals dates for visit that was planned by Tsai Ing-wen before Foreign Office intervened
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:18 PM