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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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Professor KIM Heebal Participates in Avian Genome Evolution Research Project

Professor KIM Heebal Professor Kim Heebal (Program in Animal Science and Biotechnology), a member of the Avian Genome Consortium, was listed as co-author of “Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation” published in journal Science. Over the last 4 years, several hundred scientists ...

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A Paper Dedicated to Late Professor SUH Kahp-Yang

Professor Kahp-Yang SUH Professor SUH Kahp-Yang (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), who passed away last year while attending the ISGMA conference in Hawaii, was listed as co-author of the article “Ultrasensitive mechanical crack-based sensor inspired by the spider sensory system” which was published ...

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Professor HONG Yun-Chul’s Research on How BPA Affects Human Health

Professor HONG Yun-Chul, College of Medicine Professor Hong Yun-Chul’s research team (College of Medicine) found that people who drank out of cans lined with resins containing bisphenol A (BPA) had a brief increase in their blood pressure. Professor Hong studied 60 people, mostly elderly women. Each volunteer came back...

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SNU Develops Intelligent Vehicle AEV-1

The SNU Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology has succeeded in developing Korea’s first intelligent vehicle, AEV-1. Director LEE Chung-Goo of the Intelligent Vehicle Platform Center announced that it has undergone test driving of 100 kilometers on the Institute’s premises. The car’s maximum speed is 80 kilometer...

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Professor CHUNG Chinsung's Human Rights Research

Professor Chung Chinsung Professor Chung Chinsung (Department of Sociology) brought to the world’s attention the existence of 'comfort women (wianbu)' at the UN Human Rights Committee twenty-two years ago. “We have come very far since then,” she said in an interview with Maeil Business Newspaper as she recalled how man...

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Professor PARK Seung Bum Discovers Small Molecule for Brain Damage Recovery

Professor PARK Seung Bum Professor Park Seung Bum (Department of Chemistry / Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology) and researchers from Kyungpook National University have discovered a small molecule which suppresses neuroinflammation and induces brain damage recovery. Activated microglia have a central role in...

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Professor LEE Sin-Doo Received Korea National Academy of Sciences Award for his LCD Research

Professor Lee Sin-Doo Professor Lee Sin-Doo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the 59th Korea National Academy of Sciences Award on September 17, 2014. Professor Lee worked for Bell Communications Research from 1988 to 1992 where he first researched early versions of the OLEDs (organic-light-e...

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Hangeul Orthography for the Aymara Language

SNU Department of Linguistics and the Department of Hispanic Language and Literature are currently working on creating Hangeul orthography for the Aymara language which the Aymara, an indigenous people of the Andes, use. The Aymaran language has no script of its own, and borrows the Roman alphabet. Most Aymaran vowels ...

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SNU College of Medicine Starts Uruguay Genome Project

The SNU Genomic Medicine Institute (College of Medicine), the Macrogen (Chairperson: Professor SEO Jeongsun), and the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo are cooperating in the Uruguay Genome Project. The first genome project to take place in Latin America, this project aims to disclose hereditary features in Uruguay diseas...

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Professor Finchum-Sung's Korean Music Studies

Professor Hilary Finchum-Sung Professor Hilary V. Finchum-Sung joined SNU as the first non-Korean faculty member of the SNU Department of Korean Music in 2009. She encountered Korean traditional music seventeen years ago through sinawi, a form of Korean shamanic music, and received her doctorate degree in ethnomusicolo...

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Anti-aging Cluster to Open at SNU Pyeongchang Campus

SNU Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology announced its plan to open the ‘Winter Olympics Legacy Related Anti-aging Business Cluster’ at the SNU Pyeongchang Campus. The anti-aging business is a complex business which deals with the development and supply of medical and non-medical products and services to delay...

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SNU Ranks First in Industry-University Cooperation Revenues

SNU's industry-university cooperation revenues from March 2013 to February 2014 were recorded as amounting to 622.2 billion Korean won, the largest amount among all Korean universities. Yonsei University and Korea University earned 372.6 billion KRW and 226.8 KRW, respectively. Industry-university cooperation revenue c...