Breakthrough find: Chan (left) posing with professors from the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. — China Daily
HONG KONG: The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine says it is studying the use of microbiota transplantation – the transfer of faecal bacteria from a healthy to a diseased person – to treat obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
CUHK is also seeking to develop other new treatments using the process, Chan Ka-leung, dean of the faculty, said on Thursday. Chan was announcing the opening of the university’s Microbiota Transplantation and Research Centre – the first of its kind in Asia.
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