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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Low fertility is not only a problem of today. The royal family of the Joseon dynasty was also worried about this issue. They wanted high fertility to the extent that they called the birth of a son in the royal family -- the celebration of Jongsa' (Jongsa is a type of Korean grasshopper which lays 99 eggs at once). Howe...

Professor CHUN Jongsik of SNU's Department of Biological Sciences and KIM Dong Wook, Ph.D of the International Vaccine Institute, through the use of next-generation whole-genome identification methods, have succeeded in identifying the origin and expansion path of the current cholera pandemic. This research was conduct...

The sight of a star being absorbed by a million-solar-mass black hole was observed by a group of scientists for the first time in history. The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology announced on August 24 that 5 researchers from the Center for Exploration of the Origin of the Universe of SNU's Department of Phy...