Professor KWON Sunghoon’s team has developed a DNA laser printer Professor Sunghoon Kwon’s research team (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) has developed a DNA laser printer. A DNA laser printer is a desk-sized platform that enables speedy DNA sequence synthesis. Before now, DNA sequencing was time-con...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo Professor Kim Jin-Soo’s research team (Department of Chemistry) has announced Digenome-seq -- in vitro Cas9-digested whole-genome sequencing -- to profile genome-wide Cas9 off-target effects in human cells. Using Digenome-seq, the team successfully proved that CRISPR-Cas9, an RNA-guided genome edi...

Professor CHOI Mansoo developed a highly acute sensor inspired by spider legs Professor CHOI Mansoo (Department of Mechanical Engineering) has developed a highly acute sensor which was inspired by the lyriform organ located in spider legs. The lyriform organ has slits of differing lengths which helps spiders detect pre...

Professor Chang's theory of ‘compressed modernity’ has been a key component in Korean studies worldwide Since the mid-90s, Professor Chang Kyung-Sup (Department of Sociology) has defined South Korea’s post-war development as ‘compressed modernity’. Since then, his theory of ‘compressed modernity’ has been a key compone...

This “smart skin” is the first synthetic skin that is actually capable of reproducing the sense of touching real human skin. “Smart” innovations have flourished in the past few years, transforming a range of common objects. For example, the phone has become a smartphone; the card has become a smartcard. Even innovation...

Professor LEE Changhee Professor Lee Changhee’s research team (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), in cooperation with KAIST and KIST, has discovered the core reason for the efficiency of quantum dot light-emitting devices. Energy is delivered between quantum dots when light-emitting devices emit light,...

Professor Park Kyu Hyung (School of Medicine) presented a new medical finding that people who weigh less are more likely to face macular degeneration, an optical disease not uncommon among the elderly which can lead to loss of sight. This contravenes previous medical theory that obese people are more likely to face mac...

Professor KWON Sunghoon’s research team (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), along with SNU Hospital and QuantaMatrix Inc., have developed a rapid antibiotics susceptibility test which only requires a maximum of three hours. Conventional antibiotics susceptibility tests required a minimum of 16 to 24 ho...

Professor Kang Chang Uh (Department of German Language and Literature) made public his research results on patients’ illness experiences through the website www.healthstory4u.co.kr. Modeled after the UK’s DIPEx Project, this research was jointly conducted by seventeen professors from diverse backgrounds including medic...

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 ...

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 ...

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...