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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 Professors’ Groundbreaking Discovery of Olfactory Pathway in Mosquitoes

A novel olfactory organ in the mosquito stylet Seoul National University Professor AHN Young-joon (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), and Professor KWON Hyung-wook (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) have made a scientific breakthrough in mosquito research. The news is expected to be vital in the fight a...

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Spine Disease Patients Find Relief with New Treatment

Professor LEE Sang Chul is treating a patient suffering from spinal disk herniation Professor LEE Sang Chul and his team (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine of SNU Hospital) has found foraminotomy, a procedure used to relieve pressure on the nerves in the vertebrae, as an effective method of treatment for p...

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Robotic Insect Mimics Nature’s Extreme Moves

Professor KIM Ho-Young (left) and CHO Kyu Jin SNU researchers looked to water-strider insects to develop robots that jump off water’s surface The concept of walking on water might sound supernatural, but in fact it is a quite natural phenomenon. Many small living creatures leverage water’s surface tension to maneuver t...

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New Protein Controls Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells

Professor BAEK Sung Hee Every mammal, including human beings, grows as an embryo divides into multiple cells and builds organs. Ability to differentiate comes from ‘pluripotent’ embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to develop into any types of cells or tissue depending on the specific type of signal or stimul...

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Professor PARK Invents World’s Smallest Graphene Light Bulb

Professor Park Yun Professor PARK Yun (Department of Physics and Astronomy) and Postdoctoral Researcher KIM Young Duck (Department of Physics and Astronomy) have confirmed that only 0.3-nanometer-thick graphene can spontaneously emit diverse colors of light if floated over the air like a filament in a light bulb. It is...

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Creating Stem Cells Without Worries of Cancer

Professor KIM Hyo-Soo, Professor KWON Yoo-Wook Professor KIM Hyo-Soo (Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University) and KWON Yoo-Wook (National Research Laboratory for Stem Cell Niche, Seoul National University College of Medicine) have developed a new way to make induced p...

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Professor PARK Jong Hwa Releases New Album – Korean Children’s Songs Arranged to the Melody of Western Classical Music

Professor Park’s new album, Nunaya Professor Park Jong Hwa has released a new album, “누나야: NUNAYA”, which contains eleven recordings of Korean children’s songs and traditional songs he arranged as piano solos. Since the age of five, Professor Park has studied the piano abroad at the Tokyo College of Music, New England ...

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New Real Time Technology for Brain Diseases Monitors Effects of Medicine

Professor Kim Jeong Hun Professor KIM Jeong Hun (Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine) and LEE Tae Geol (Center for Nano-Bio Measurement, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science Daejeon) have measured the capacitance (the ability of a body to store an electrical charge) of endothelial cells that c...

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Professor Yoon-Sik LEE Enables Direct Identification of Peptides Using SERS Barcoding System

Professor LEE Yoon-Sik Professor Yoon-Sik Lee’s research team (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) has developed a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) barcoding system for high-throughput bioanalysis using highly sensitive SERS nanoparticles (SERS ID) which enables easy preparation and screening of co...

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New Treatment for Liver Cancer Lowers Death Rate by Seventy-Nine Percent

Professors YOON Jung-Hwan and Lee Jeong-Hoon Professors YOON Jung-Hwan and LEE Jeong-Hoon, and Green Cross Cell have co-developed a treatment for liver cancer which lowers the death rate by 79 percent. The treatment involves incubating 120ml of the patient’s blood for two to three weeks in a clean laboratory. When cyto...

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Professor LEE Byoung Ho Develops High Technology Color Filter

Professor LEE Byoung Ho Professor Lee Byoung Ho’s research team (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) has developed a color filter that can display all three primary colors. Currently, a series of colors is generally expressed by a combination of at least three primary color pixels. Professor Lee develope...

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Professor Sung Hoon KIM Receives Hoam Award in Medicine

Professor KIM Sung Hoon Professor Sung Hoon Kim (Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences) has received the 2015 Hoam Award in Medicine for his contributions to greater understanding of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. Professor Kim first started researching aminoacyl-tRNA in 1994 when he returned to K...