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Temporally Distinct 3D Multi-Omic Dynamics in the Developing Human Brain

Temporally Distinct 3D Multi-Omic Dynamics in the Developing Human Brain

Prof. Dong-Sung Lee

Professor Dongsung Lee from the College of Medicine at SNU, in collaboration with researchers at UCLA and UCSF, has published a paper in Nature, being the first in the world to study epigenomic changes, including the three-dimensional genome structure and DNA methylation, during human brain development from the fetal stage to adulthood at the single-cell level, using the single-nucleus methyl-3C technology they developed.

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SNU Research Team Develop Seismic Design Precast Concrete

Professor HONG Sung-Gul, Professor KANG Hyun-Koo, and Research Fellow LIM Woo Young Professor Sung-Gul HONG’s research team (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering) has developed an innovative steel plate connector system for connection between precast concrete wall panels. Such a connector system is ...

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Professor LEE Eun-Ju, Editor-in-Chief of Human Communication Research

Professor LEE Eun-Ju Professor Lee Eun-Ju (Department of Communication) was appointed editor-in-chief of Human Communication Research, an internationally renowned journal in the field of human communications. Human Communication Research is one of the three official journals of the International Communication Associati...

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Professor SUH KyungSuk Saves High School Girl with Biliary Atresia and Later Helps Her Give Birth to a Child

Professor SEO Kyungsuk Professor Suh Kyungsuk (College of Medicine) shared his story of saving a high school girl with congenital biliary atresia in 1999 and later helping her give birth to a son in 2014 in an interview with DongA Ilbo. Ms. KWON Soo Kyung was a high school junior when she received a liver transplant fr...

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Professors HYEON Taeghwan and PARK Chung-Mo on the Thomson Reuters 2015 World's Most Highly Cited Researchers List

Professors HYEONG Taeghwan and PARK Chung-Mo Professors Hyeon Taeghwan (Interdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering) and Park Chung-Mo (Department of Chemistry) were included on the Thompson Reuters IP & Science 2015 World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers list. The list derives from Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ...

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Professor Young Ho YUN Leads Legislation of Well-dying Act

Professor YUN Young Ho The so-called “Well-dying Act” passed the National Assembly on January 9. Professor Young Ho Yun (College of Medicine) was the hidden driving force behind this. “We have to prepare in advance so that when the Well-dying Act comes into force in 2018 it can settle into our society,” he said. The We...

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Diabetic Pig Islet Transplant Recipients Report Normal Blood Glucose Level for up to 603 Days

Monkey in SNU Xenotransplantation Research Centerspan> SNU Hospital’s Xenotransplantation Research Center (http://www.xenokorea.org/) reported that pig islet grafts survived and maintained normoglycemia for over six months in four of five consecutive immunosuppressed nonhuman primates. Pig islets are an alternative sou...

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Professor Dae Hyeong KIM Develops Wearable Silicon Memory Array

Wearable silicon memory chip Professor Dae Hyeong Kim’s research team (Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science) has developed a wearable, fully multiplexed silicon memory array with nanocrystal floating gates. The team assembled gold nanoparticle floating gates over silicon nanomembranes using the...

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Professor Vic Narry KIM Deconstructs Structure of Human DROSHA

Professor KIM Vic Narryspan> Professor V. Narry Kim (director of the Center for RNA Research, Institute for Basic Science) has reported the X-ray structure of DROSHA, a class 2 ribonuclease III enzyme that in humans is encoded by the DROSHA (formerly RNASE) gene. DROSHA is a key factor in creating microRNA which functi...

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SNU Professors Discover New Phototrophic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium Pohangense and Aduncodinium Glandula

Alexandrium Pohangense (left) and Aduncodinium Glandula (right) Professor Hae Jin JEONG’s research team (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences) discovered a new planktonic phototrophic dinoflagellate species, which it named the Alexandrium pohangense after the coastal area (Pohang) in which it was discovered. The ...

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Professor LEE Youngjo Wins 2015 Korea Science Award

Professor LEE Youngjo Professor Lee Youngjo (Department of Statistics) was chosen as the winner of the 2015 Korea Science Award in the field of mathematics by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. Professor Lee was r...

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SNU Professor Develops Treatment for Retinal Disease Using Nanoparticles

Professor KIM Jung Hoon Professor Jung Hoon KIM (School of Medicine) and Dr. LEE Tae-gul (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) developed a treatment using nanoparticles for retinal disease which can lead to sight loss. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which creates new blood vessels, is known as...

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SNU Selected as Best Institute for Technology Transfer and Commercialization

SNU was selected as one of the three best institutes for technology transfer and commercialization. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) reviewed 300 public institutes and made the ‘2015 Technology Transfer and Commercialization Index.’ SNU was ranked h...