Professor CHAR Kookheon of the SNU School of Chemical and Biological Engineering was appointed a Gutenberg Research College Fellow by the Gutenberg Research College (GRC, affiliated with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). A Gutenberg Research College Fellow holds a special researcher rank of international author...

At the 10th International Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting held in Manchester, England, from May 23-25, 2011, “Ilsungrok” was accepted for inscription on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies of SNU houses this significant historical record. “Ilsungrok” consists of 2,329 v...

The ‘central dogma’ of biology that genetic information of DNA in cell nuclei decides the vital phenomena of human bodies is to be shaken to its core by Korean researchers. The accepted explanation was that protein is created on the basis of RNA, copied information of DNA. In other words, DNA was thought to be the orig...

People who belong to the category of Obese Class 1 of the body mass index (hereinafter, “BMI”) are more susceptible to diabetes than people within normal weight range by 50 percent. People who belong to the category of Obese Class 2 are twice as likely to develop diabetes. Body mass index is defined as an individual's ...

Thomson Reuters published its Global Research Report: Materials Science and Technology on July 1, which contains a careful review of data collected over a period of ten years -- from early 2001 to the beginning of 2011. This 16-page report provides information on the leading institutions and universities for materials ...

Korean researchers have succeeded in proliferating stem cells more than double by using minute electric currents instead of expensive culture fluid. Professor SUH Yoo Hun of SNU’s College of Medicine and Professor KIM Sung June of the College of Engineering announced on May 27 that as a result of stimulation of stem ce...

Plants grow day by day during summer, but stop growing in the wintertime. During this time, they can look so dried up that they even seem dead. Also, they grow during the day but do not grow during the night. What controls the bio-rhythm of plants? Recently the answer to this question was discovered by an SNU research ...

A Korean research team has found a way to observe nano particles using normal microscopes. The Ministry of Education and Science has confirmed that Professor Yi Jongheop of the SNU School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor Kang Tae Wook of Seogang University and Professor Choi Yeon Ho of Korea University...

Through joint research with the Rural Development Administration (RDA), Professor KIM Heebal (SNU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) has discovered that particular genes of swine are related to human abdominal obesity. The team compared chromosome 6 of swine with chromosome 1 of humans and found that eight out o...

After conducting microsurgical varicocelectomy on patients with clinical varicocele, the Male Infertility Team of the Department of Urology at SNU Hospital (headed by Professors KIM Soo Woong and PAICK Jae-Seung) announced on May 17 that they have discovered such treatment to significantly improve the concentration and...

SHIN Eun-Hee, professor of Medicine specializing in Parasitology, and her research team discovered that the injection of Toxoplasma Gondii, a typical parasite found in cells, had a cancer deterrence effect on mice as their immune response strengthened. From this the ‘hygiene hypothesis’ which theorizes a correlation be...

YI Jongheop, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and his research team have succeeded in developing a new technique to separate hydrogen (H) from water (H2O) using the sun’s visible rays and the principle plant photosynthesis. Professor Yi observed that “the application of this technique will make solar en...