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The Secret to Satiety Unveiled by Seoul National University Researchers!
Prof. Hyung Jin Choi
Professor Hyung Jin Choi's research team from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Seoul National University has announced that they have identified the mechanism by which 'glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)' based obesity treatments reduce body weight for the first time in the world.
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Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak Develops Imaginative Computer Program
Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak leads the research on brain-inspired computational intelligence technologies. Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak’s research team (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) has developed an imaginative computer program that can acquire information contained in videos and make up words or dialogu...
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Professor KWON Sunghoon Develops DNA Laser Printer
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...
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Professor KIM Jin-Soo’s RNA-Guided Genome Editing Using Digenome-seq
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...
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Sensors Inspired by Spider Legs
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...
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Professor CHANG Kyung-Sup’s Theory on South Korea’s Compressed Modernity
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...
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Professor KIM Dae-Hyeoung Invented Artificial "Smart Skin" for Skin Prosthesis
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...
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Professor LEE Changhee Enhances Efficiency of Quantum Dot Light-emitting Devices
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,...
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Professor PARK Kyu Hyung Finds Macular Degeneration More Common Among People Who Weigh Less
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...
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Professor KWON Sunghoon Found a Faster Way to Diagnose Antibiotic Resistance
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...
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Professor KANG Chang Uh Shares Research on Illness Experience
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...
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Professor KIM Heebal Participates in Avian Genome Evolution Research Project
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 ...
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A Paper Dedicated to Late Professor SUH Kahp-Yang
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 ...