Chua Skin Specialist

https://chuaskin.com/blog/fungi-genome-editing/

A prime-editor for fungi — waking up the silent chemistry inside our medicine cabinets A University of Pennsylvania team reports in Nature Biotechnology a new prime-editing tool (fPE7max) that lets researchers switch on dormant biosynthetic pathways in fungi. Their first run yielded 18 complex molecules, 8 entirely new to science, three with selective anti-cancer activity.

https://chuaskin.com/blog/phage-therapy-framework/

Phage therapy, reframed — a three-stage model of phage-bacteria coexistence A Shenyang Agricultural University group proposes in Biocontaminant that we've been thinking about phage therapy too simply. Their new three-stage framework — arms race, protective coexistence, ecological feedback — reshapes how phages could fit into antimicrobial resistance control.

https://chuaskin.com/blog/peptide-antibiotic-resistance/

A mirror-image peptide that shreds bacterial biofilms — and might give us a new antibiotic University of Alberta researchers report in Cell Biomaterials that D-GK17, a mirror-image peptide derived from a fragment of the natural human peptide LL-37, dismantles bacterial biofilms and stays non-toxic at the doses needed to work.

https://malayznbeat.com/why-generations-of-malaysians-keep-coming-back-to-dr-chua/

Why Generations of Malaysians Keep Coming Back to Dr. Chua The Dermatologist Who Chose Trust Over Trends: How Dr. Chua Built a Skin Clinic Patients Have Stayed With for 17 Years In a world where beauty clinics seem to appear overnight and social media is flooded with promises of instant transformations, trust has become one of the rarest things a patient ca...

Wed, Jun 17, 2026. Open 1 to 4 pm.

Jun 1, Mon, Clinic closed. Jun 2, Tue, Clinic reopen.

May 27 Hari Raya Haji. Open 2 - 5 pm.

https://chuaskin.com/blog/doxycycline-pep-gonorrhoea-resistance/

Doxycycline PEP is losing its grip on gonorrhoea — and the bacterium is winning the antibiotic-resistance race A new Lancet Infectious Diseases study from southern California shows doxyPEP's protective effect against gonorrhoea has vanished within a year of rollout, as the tetM resistance gene spreads through Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

https://chuaskin.com/blog/sulfur-polymer-antifungal/

A new sulfur polymer that kills fungi and bacteria without harming skin Researchers at Flinders University have developed a sulfur-based polymer that shows strong activity against drug-resistant fungi and bacteria — while leaving human and plant cells untouched.

20/3 Fri 10-4 pm Open. 21/3 Sat Closed. 23/3 Mon 9-4 Open. Walk-in or appt ok.