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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 Jin-Soo Developed RNA-guided Engineered Nucleases (RGENs)

Professor KIM Jin-Soo (Department of Chemistry) Professor KIM Jin-Soo’s research team (Department of Chemistry) developed RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) which use enzymes to cut certain parts of DNA in order to create DNA with certain wanted characteristics. Professor Kim is one of the leading scholars in the ...

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Developing Drugs for the Global Market

A good doctor can save thousands of patients whereas an outstanding drug can save millions of patients. This is the philosophy of Professor KIM Sung Hoon of SNU’s Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences. Professor KIM Sung Hoon Although he was from a family of doctors that goes back generations, as a...

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Genes Responsible for Lung Cancer Investigated

Professor SEO Jeong Sun Korean medical researchers have found genetic mutants which cause lung cancer by analyzing a genome of cancer tissues from patients suffering from lung adenocarcinoma, which is responsible for 40% of the annual worldwide occurance of lung cancer. They also discovered four specimens of fusion gen...

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New Cure for Ischemic Stroke Developed Using Ceria Nanoparticles

The joint research team led by Chair Professor HYEON Taeghwan of SNU’s Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Professor LEE Seung Hoon of the College of Medicine has succeeded in developing a new cure for ischemic stroke.[1] Professor Hyeon, Director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS)’s Center for Nanop...

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Worming Innovation: The Meshworm

Rarely is a flexible image conjured when thinking of robots. The term ‘robot’ is mostly associated with rigidness, with joints and hinges that squeak on. The new Meshworm, an innovative robotic worm, therefore breaks preconceived notions of robots with fresh force. A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University and...

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Professor CHOI Bong Kyu Finds a Cause of Periodontitis

A team of researchers led by Professor CHOI Bong Kyu of SNU's School of Dentistry published a paper that showed a cause of periodontitis, a type of gum diseases, in the prestigious immunology journal 'Immunity' on May 25. Periodontitis is an infectious disease arising from germs in gums. As a consequence, one's gums mi...

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A New Method of Detecting Target Proteins

The ministry of Education, Science, and Technology announced that a team of researchers led by Professor PARK Seung Bum of SNU's Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology, who are also at Global Frontier Medicinal Bioconvergence Research Center (Bicon), developed a new method of detecting a target protein. The atte...

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Globular Clusters – Giving Clues to the History of Space

For the first time ever Korean researchers have verified the existence of a globular cluster which is made up of approximately one million stars. Because most of the celestial bodies composing globular clusters were given birth to in the early days of space's creation, confirming the presence of the clusters is seen to...

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Transmission of Genetic Information during Cell Division Identified by Professor BAEK Sung Hee

Professor BAEK Sung Hee The research team led by Professor BAEK Sung Hee of SNU's College of Natural Sciences has discovered the transmission process of genetic information from mother cell to daughter cells in the cell division procedure. Their research is expected to be the cornerstone for developing new treatments f...

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Colorectal Cancer Treatment Developed Using Nanoparticles

With reports from the World Health Organization that Korean men rank #1 in Asia for the occurrence of colorectal cancer, Korean researchers have discovered a treatment that kills colorectal cancer cells with nanotechnology using minute particles that have the thickness of merely a ten-thousandth of a hair. The research...

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Stars Can Die Twice

It has traditionally been thought that a star dies either by exploding as a supernova to become a neutron star, or by becoming a white dwarf. A supernova refers to a phenomenon in which an old star emits a large amount of energy upon explosion, while a white dwarf is a celestial body that is formed as sun-scale stars g...

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Genetic Scissors To Cut Out Specific Genome

A research team led by Professor KIM Jin-Soo of SNU’s Department of Chemistry and Professor KIM Hyongbum of Hanyang University’s Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering has developed a new method to easily select cells with mutated genes using so called “genetic scissors”. Creating mutations in genes is a usef...