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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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Professor KIM Youn Sang Develops Transparent Thin Film Diodes

Professor KIM Youn Sang Professor Kim Youn Sang’s research team (Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology) has developed a thin film diode which can be used to make transparent displays. Formerly, transparent thin film diodes were made by combining P-type and N-type semiconductors (PN junction diodes). But...

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Professor LEE YeongJu’s Complete Translation of Li Bai

Complete Works of LI Bai translated by Professor LEE Yeong Ju Professor Lee YeongJu (Department of Chinese and Chinese Literature) made a complete translation of mid-Tang dynasty poet Li Bai’s poetry. One thousand seventy-two poems are ascribed to Li Bai and the complete translations had to be published in eight books....

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Professor CHO Kuk Most Frequently Cited Korean Legal Scholar

Professor CHO Kuk Professor Cho Kuk (School of Law), who teaches criminal and criminal procedure law, is the most frequently cited Korean legal scholar. According to the National Research Foundation of Korea, Professor Cho’s work has been cited a total of 280 times from 2004 to February 2015. He published forty papers ...

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New Technology to Manufacture Polymer Composites with Well Dispersed Graphene Particles

Professor YOUN Jae Ryoun Professor YOUN Jae Ryoun (Department of Materials Science) and his research team have developed an innovative method to fabricate polymer composites with well dispersed graphene particles in the matrix resin by using solvent free powder mixing and in-situ polymerization of a low viscosity oligo...

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World’s Smallest Bubbles Observed

Professor HONG Byung Hee Professor CHO Sung-Pyo Bubbles are called bubbles because they vanishes so quickly before our eyes. However, bubbles survive quite a long time in nanoscale and affect our lives. Divers’ disease (decompression sickness), for example, is known to be caused by these nano-size bubbles remaining in ...

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New Bell-measurement Scheme to Teleport Photons with High Success Probability

Professor KIM Jin-Soo Professor Hyunseok JEONG’s research team (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has developed a new Bell-measurement scheme to teleport photons with high success probability. Photons are a promising candidate for quantum information. But the standard Bell measurement using linear optics and photo d...

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Why Targeted Cancer Therapy Seldom Works in Treating Ovarian Cancer

Professor SONG YongSang Professors SONG YongSang (School of Medicine) and Duhee BANG (Yonsei University) have discovered why targeted cancer therapy shows high rates of failure in treating ovarian cancer. The research team collected 11 spatially separated tumor samples from a stage three ovarian cancer patient and perf...

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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...