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Professor Hyobin Yoo’s Research Team at SNU Develops 2D Quantum Material Platform Using Moiré Lattice Superposition

Professor Hyobin Yoo’s Research Team at SNU Develops 2D Quantum Material Platform Using Moiré Lattice Superposition

Prof. Hyobin Yoo

Seoul National University College of Engineering has announced that a joint research team led by Professor Hyobin Yoo from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Young-Woo Son (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) and Professor Changwon Park (Ewha Womans University), has successfully developed a two-dimensional (2D) quantum material platform through the superposition of moiré lattices.

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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...

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An SNU Researcher Reveals Joseon Dynasty's Fertility Decline

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...

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Source of Ongoing Cholera Pandemic Identified

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...