A targeted and logical discovery method was devised for natural products containing piperazic acid (Piz), which is biosynthesized from ornithine by l-ornithine N-hydroxylase (KtzI) and N–N bond formation enzyme (KtzT). Genomic signature-based screening of a bacterial DNA library (2020 strains) using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers targeting ktzT identified 62 strains (3.1%).

An agrivoltaic system (AVS) offers a potential strategy for meeting global demands for renewable energy and sustainability by integrating photovoltaics and agriculture.

Professor Gwan-Hyoung Lee's research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at SNU has reported the thermally induced atomic reconstruction into fully commensurate structure of randomly stacked 2D layers.

A research team led by Professor Yang-Sook Chun from the Department of Physiology & Biomedical Sciences at SNU has uncovered the molecular mechanism of palmitoylation-driven lipid reprogramming in liver cancer cells.

Many crop plants have genetic barriers to de novo organogenesis during tissue culture. Therefore, exogenous application of metabolites and/or small molecules that promote cell fate transition in tissue culture-recalcitrant species could be key solution for current bottlenecks.

Cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) catalyze diverse oxidative cross-coupling reactions between aromatic substrates in natural product biosynthesis.

Prof. Steinegger‘s team from the Department of Biological Science at SNU has unlocked the gate to the large predicted protein structure AlphaFold Database by clustering the 214M structures into 2M shape-groups, revealing putative homology in prokaryotic species to human immune-related proteins.

Professor Lee's group and colleagues from the Department of Biomedical Sciences at SNU College of Medicine have identified a novel pathological mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease, which opens first-in-class therapeutic strategies.

Social hierarchy is established as an outcome of individual social behaviors, such as dominance behavior during long-term interactions with others. Astrocytes are implicated in optimizing the balance between excitatory and inhibitory (E/I) neuronal activity, which may influence social behavior.

Underrepresentation of non-European (EUR) populations hinders growth of global precision medicine. Resources such as imputation reference panels that match the study population are necessary to find low-frequency variants with substantial effects.

Most stars form in multiple-star systems. For a better understanding of their formation processes, it is important to resolve the individual protostellar components and the surrounding envelope and disk material at the earliest possible formation epoch, because the formation history can be lost in a few orbital timescales.

Emerging new-generation geostationary satellites have broadened the scope for studying the diurnal cycle of ecosystem functions. We exploit observations from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series to examine the effect of a severe U.S. heatwave in 2020 on the diurnal variations of ecosystem photosynthesis.