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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 KeeHoon Develops Magnet Which Changes Poles by Electric Field

Professor KIM Kee Hoon Professor KIM Kee Hoon (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has developed a magnet which can change poles without the help of a magnetic field. Magnetic materials, which are a key component in hard disks, record information usually by changing poles using magnetic fields. This caused many proble...

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Professor CHO Kyu Jin Awarded Early Career Award by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Professor CHO Kyu Jin Professor CHO Kyu Jin (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) became the first Korean to be awarded the RAS Early Career Award (Academic) by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The RAS stated that Professor Cho was awarded for"fundamental contributions to soft robotics and biol...

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SNU Leading Creative Researchers of 2014

Certificate award ceremony for SNU Leading Creative Researchers of 2014 SNU announced this year’s selection of Leading Creative Researchers as Professors WHANG Yoon-Jae (Dept. of Economics), NOH Tae Won (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) and PARK Jongil (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences). Since 2012 the University has sele...

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Professor KIM Jin-Soo Develops Technology to Modify Genes

Professor KIM Jin-Soo’s research was published as the cover article of Genome Research Professor KIM Jin-Soo (Department of Chemistry) has developed a new method of using RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) to modify human genes. RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) use enzymes to cut certain parts of DNA in ord...

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Professor KIM Youn Sang Develops Technology to Turn Toilet Flush into Electricity

Professor KIM Youn Sang (Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology) has developed a transparent element which generates enough electricity to light an LED when it touches water. When a water drop touches the surface of an object with electric charge, a change in the object’s electric charge occurs. Professo...

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Professor KANG Kisuk Develops Next Generation Lithium Secondary Cell Battery

Professor KANG Kisuk (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) Professor KANG Kisuk (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) has developed original technology for the production of next generation lithium secondary cell batteries along with KAIST and the Agency for Defense Development. Lithium secondary cel...

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SNU CARFRE Selected as a Leading Engineering Research Center by the Ministry of Education

SNU Center for Advanced Research in Fusion Reactor Engineering The SNU Center for Advanced Research in Fusion Reactor Engineering (CARFRE) has been designated one of the leading engineering research centers in the country by the Ministry of Education. CARFRE, which opened in 2008, has received a total of 8,000,000,000 ...

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New Technology to Enable Production of Cars without Wipers

Professor JHE Wonho (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) Professor JHE Wonho (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has discovered the mechanism of titanium dioxide’s superhydrophilicity. When superhydrophilic material absorbs light, water dropped onto it does not form waterdrops, but instead spreads out widely. Professor J...

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Pendlebury’s New List Named Three SNU Scientists

David Pendlebury’s ‘New List of Highly Cited Scientists 2002~2012’ named three SNU Professors V. Narry KIM (left), HYEON Taeghwan, and SURH YoungJoon (right). Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury who is well known for his ‘Nobel Predictions’ released ‘New List of Highly Cited Scientists 2002~2012’ in a symposium he...

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Professor Breitenfeld’s Digitalization of Korean Music

Professor Roland Breitenfeld (Dept. of Composition) Professor Roland Breitenfeld (Department of Composition) has been teaching computer music and electronic music at SNU since 2006. He has worked on digitalizing Korean music, by computerizing the sound of Korean traditional instruments such as the janggu, gayageum and ...

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Is the Vacuum Really Empty?

Vacuum Energy Distribution in a Cavity Directly Imaged Professor AN Kyungwon's class Is the vacuum really empty? Professor AN Kyungwon of SNU Physics answers that it's not. The same question was asked by Paul A. Dirac 90 years ago. Surprisingly, he suggested that the vacuum is not empty, but filled with energy called t...

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Professor PARK Tai Hyun Develops Bioelectronic Nose

Professor PARK Tai Hyun (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) Professor PARK Tai Hyun (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) developed an electronic nose which can detect cancer in the cover article of the March edition of Advanced Healthcare Materials. His electronic nose uses odor receptor proteins f...