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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 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 ...

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Professor HONG Yun-Chul’s Research on How BPA Affects Human Health

Professor HONG Yun-Chul, College of Medicine Professor Hong Yun-Chul’s research team (College of Medicine) found that people who drank out of cans lined with resins containing bisphenol A (BPA) had a brief increase in their blood pressure. Professor Hong studied 60 people, mostly elderly women. Each volunteer came back...

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SNU Develops Intelligent Vehicle AEV-1

The SNU Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology has succeeded in developing Korea’s first intelligent vehicle, AEV-1. Director LEE Chung-Goo of the Intelligent Vehicle Platform Center announced that it has undergone test driving of 100 kilometers on the Institute’s premises. The car’s maximum speed is 80 kilometer...

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Professor CHUNG Chinsung's Human Rights Research

Professor Chung Chinsung Professor Chung Chinsung (Department of Sociology) brought to the world’s attention the existence of 'comfort women (wianbu)' at the UN Human Rights Committee twenty-two years ago. “We have come very far since then,” she said in an interview with Maeil Business Newspaper as she recalled how man...

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Professor PARK Seung Bum Discovers Small Molecule for Brain Damage Recovery

Professor PARK Seung Bum Professor Park Seung Bum (Department of Chemistry / Department of Biophysics and Chemical Biology) and researchers from Kyungpook National University have discovered a small molecule which suppresses neuroinflammation and induces brain damage recovery. Activated microglia have a central role in...

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Professor LEE Sin-Doo Received Korea National Academy of Sciences Award for his LCD Research

Professor Lee Sin-Doo Professor Lee Sin-Doo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the 59th Korea National Academy of Sciences Award on September 17, 2014. Professor Lee worked for Bell Communications Research from 1988 to 1992 where he first researched early versions of the OLEDs (organic-light-e...