(From left) Professors JEONG Do Un, LEE Yu Jin, and PARK Kwang Suk Previous experiments to predict the quality of sleep had to be done while the subject was asleep throughout the night. College of Medicine Professors Park Kwang Suk, Jeong Do Un, and Lee Yu Jin discovered a method in which the quality of sleep could be ...

Professor HONG Yun-Chul Environmental hormones, also known as endocrine disruptors, are chemical substances that can interfere with and disrupt the functions of the endocrine and hormonal systems in our body. They are commonly found in products used in daily life such as plastics, toys, pesticides, and canned foods. Am...

An experimental model of the Geunjeongjeon Hall created in 1:100 scale by Professsor Jeon’s team. Professor Bong Hee Jeon of the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering and his research team created an experimental model of the Geunjeongjeon Hall in Gyeongbokgung in 1:100 scale. What sets this model ap...

The buckwheat-fed chickens laid 8.2% more eggs than the control group. The weights of the egg white and shell of these eggs were heavier by 2.1% and 5.8% respectively, and the L-Carnitine and GABA (Gamma-Amino Butyric acid) contents in the eggs were also 13.6% and 8.4% greater. A research team led by Professors Doman K...

Optical images of cells in a skin-on-a-chip device. The “Skin Avatar,” a roughly two centimetre-sized chip modeling the human skin, is the latest in “Organ-on-a-chip” technology, undertaken by SNU Hospital Professor Tae Hyun Choi and Professor Sanghoon Lee of Korea University. The research began in August 2014. Profess...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo In 2015, Professor Jin-Soo Kim of the Department of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Genome Engineering in the Research Institute of Basic Sciences, successfully edited the DNA of lettuce using the CRISPR-Cas9 “DNA scissors.” The CRISPR-Cas9 “DNA scissors” technique was a breakthrough in t...

Professor MOOK Inhee (College of Medicine) On December 23 2016, a research team led by Professor Inhee Mook, SNU Department of Biomedical Sciences, and Professor KyoHan Ahn, POSTEC (Pohang University of Science and Technology) Department of Chemistry, discovered a biomarker that indicates the onset and the progress of ...

Dust mites, which can live in the home in clothes, sofas, carpets, and blankets, are notoriously difficult to get rid of, as mere laundering is often insufficient to remove them. Exposure to dust mite allergens is one of the causes of asthma. Professor AHN Young Joon of the College of Agricultural Science is the first ...

LEE Kwangho (left) and PARK Senghwan of Axis Light Team, winner of the 2016 E2 FESTA Capstone Design Award A transparent LED (light emitting diode) film, invented by a team of SNU engineering students was chosen top prize in the Capstone Design project. Capstone Design is the term used to describe a creative, comprehen...

Professor PARK Chung-Mo When we think of how plants undergo the process of photosynthesis, we often think that only the part above ground is capable of detecting and reacting to sunlight. On November 2, Professor PARK Chung-Mo (Department of Biology) and his team overturned this long-accepted notion by discovering that...

Professor KIM Ho (Graduate School of Public Health) Professor KIM Ho (Graduate School of Public Health) found that there is a higher risk of cardiac arrhythmia when there is a greater diurnal range during the change of seasons. Diurnal range is the difference between the daily maximum and daily minimum temperature. Nor...

Professor LEE Ho Young at the center and her lab members Professor LEE Ho Young (SNU College of Pharmacy) was recently selected to receive funding from the Research Leader Support Program, a project administered by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. The...