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Ombudsman probes provision of post-death public services by Government (with photo) *********************************************************************************** The following is issued on behalf of the Office of The Ombudsman:        The Ombudsman, Ms Winnie Chiu, today (December 19) announced the launch of a direct investigation to examine the provision of post-death public services by the Government.         In early 2022, not a few people died with COVID-19 when the disease rampaged through Hong Kong. The resulted pressure threatened to overwhelm the operations of public mortuaries and the mortuaries in public hospitals, and demand for cremation services was once pressing. The situation had added ... Read more

TSUKUBA, Japan, Nov 21, 2023 – (ACN Newswire) – By giving living cells a ‘nano-poke’ and monitoring the resulting changes in the intra-cellular environment, researchers have gotten their first glimpse of how whole cells respond to external mechanical pressure. How foot stress (prestress) distribution varies with foot function. A team lead by scientists from the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, used a technique called atomic force microscopy to apply force across the surface of various cells. The method uses nanoscale probes, with tips just a few billionths of a metre in size, to measure and map how ... Read more