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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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Seoul National University Research Team Discovers Way to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease

Professor MOOK Inhee On March 15, a team of Seoul National University medical professors led by Professor MOOK Inhee announced in the esteemed life sciences journal, Autophagy, that they have discovered a mechanism in the brain that regulates the substance which triggers Alzheimer’s disease. In 2013, scientists at the ...

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Professor Mansoo CHOI Develops Highly Efficient Graphene-Based Solar Cell

(Source: Advanced Energy Materials) Professor Mansoo CHOI’s research team (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) has developed a highly efficient transparent conductive oxide (TCO)-free inverted perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3) solar cell by using a graphene transparent electrode. Careful engineering of the interf...

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Professor KANG Kisuk Unravels Mystery of Sodium-Oxygen Batteries

Professor KANG Kisuk Professor KANG Kisuk (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) has discovered the reason behind the low performance of sodium-oxygen batteries. Conflicting observations with different discharge products have inhibited the understanding of precise reactions in sodium-oxygen batteries. Profes...

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Professor SEO Jeongsun Takes Part in Genome Asia 100K Initiative

Professor SEO Jeongsun Professor SEO Jeongsun (College of Medicine) will participate as a co-research representative in the Genome Asia 100K Initiative led by Macrogen, a leading biotech company. The Genome Asia 100K Initiative is a non-profit consortium with participating members from 19 Asian countries with the aim o...

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SNU Lattice Gauge Theory Research Center Finds New Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Professor LEE Wonjong, Leader of SNU Lattice Gauge Theory Research Center The SNU Lattice Gauge Theory Research Center, led by Professor Weonjong LEE (Department of Physics and Astronomy), has discovered a deficiency in the Standard Model. The Center found that regarding εK (epsilon K), a parameter of CP violation, exp...

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SNU Research Team Develop Seismic Design Precast Concrete

Professor HONG Sung-Gul, Professor KANG Hyun-Koo, and Research Fellow LIM Woo Young Professor Sung-Gul HONG’s research team (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering) has developed an innovative steel plate connector system for connection between precast concrete wall panels. Such a connector system is ...

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Professor LEE Eun-Ju, Editor-in-Chief of Human Communication Research

Professor LEE Eun-Ju Professor Lee Eun-Ju (Department of Communication) was appointed editor-in-chief of Human Communication Research, an internationally renowned journal in the field of human communications. Human Communication Research is one of the three official journals of the International Communication Associati...

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Professor SUH KyungSuk Saves High School Girl with Biliary Atresia and Later Helps Her Give Birth to a Child

Professor SEO Kyungsuk Professor Suh Kyungsuk (College of Medicine) shared his story of saving a high school girl with congenital biliary atresia in 1999 and later helping her give birth to a son in 2014 in an interview with DongA Ilbo. Ms. KWON Soo Kyung was a high school junior when she received a liver transplant fr...

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Professors HYEON Taeghwan and PARK Chung-Mo on the Thomson Reuters 2015 World's Most Highly Cited Researchers List

Professors HYEONG Taeghwan and PARK Chung-Mo Professors Hyeon Taeghwan (Interdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering) and Park Chung-Mo (Department of Chemistry) were included on the Thompson Reuters IP & Science 2015 World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers list. The list derives from Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ...

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Professor Young Ho YUN Leads Legislation of Well-dying Act

Professor YUN Young Ho The so-called “Well-dying Act” passed the National Assembly on January 9. Professor Young Ho Yun (College of Medicine) was the hidden driving force behind this. “We have to prepare in advance so that when the Well-dying Act comes into force in 2018 it can settle into our society,” he said. The We...

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Diabetic Pig Islet Transplant Recipients Report Normal Blood Glucose Level for up to 603 Days

Monkey in SNU Xenotransplantation Research Centerspan> SNU Hospital’s Xenotransplantation Research Center (http://www.xenokorea.org/) reported that pig islet grafts survived and maintained normoglycemia for over six months in four of five consecutive immunosuppressed nonhuman primates. Pig islets are an alternative sou...

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Professor Dae Hyeong KIM Develops Wearable Silicon Memory Array

Wearable silicon memory chip Professor Dae Hyeong Kim’s research team (Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science) has developed a wearable, fully multiplexed silicon memory array with nanocrystal floating gates. The team assembled gold nanoparticle floating gates over silicon nanomembranes using the...