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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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New Interpretation on the 'Renaissance Age of Korea'

JUNG Byung Sul, Professor of Korean Language and Literature at SNU College of Humanities, gave a series of history lecture at Munhakdongnae Café, an online cafe at http://cafe.naver.com/mhdn, which became very popular to the public. At his lecture 'Power and the Man, the Truth Behind the Prince Sado's ...

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The Brain as a Percussion Instrument

The Brain as a Percussion InstrumentSNU Medical School Reveals Relationship Between the Brain and Sounds Koreans have long believed in prenatal education, 'taegyo', like most other cultures over the centuries. Then, this belief was dismissed in the modern age as not being scientific. However, modern scientists are now ...

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Korean Traditional Child-Play Found to Reduce Stress

Korean Traditional Child-Play Found to Reduce StressKang Do-Hyung’s Team (Dept. of Neuropsychiatry, SNU Hospital) Says Doridori Reduces Stress One of the words Korean babies hear most after they’re born is “doridori (도리도리)”. It is a mimetic word for shaking the head left and right a definite number of times. Doridori, ...

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Professor BANG Yung-Jue Presented a Promising Lung Cancer Drug

Professor BANG Yung-Jue presented his clinical trial on lung cancer patients at the Prestigious Plenary Session of the 2010 Annual Meeting of American Society of Oncology (ASCO). Professor Bang has reported that a new drug called crizotinib has been highly effective on one type of lung cancer patients. It was discovere...

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Childbirth Raises Women's Stroke Risk

SNU Hospital of Bundang found that the childbirth raises the stroke risk. Professor YOON Byung-Woo reported in his paper that going through childbirth more than once appears to raise a woman's risk of having a stroke due to bleeding in the brain.Yoon's team conducted a direct comparison of women who did and d...

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A 'Genetic Scissor' for AIDS Patients

Professor KIM Jin-soo at Dept. of Chemistry has developed a new gene-engineering method that may help treat acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. Kim has used a"genetic scissor" called"zinc finger nucleases" to precisely remove human chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) that acts as a conduit for the human immuno...

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New Development in Color Priniting

Professor KWON Sung-hoon's research team developed a high-resolution patterning technique that produces multiple sturctural colors within seconds by mimicking the structural colors found in butterfly wings and peacock feathers. Kwon said that he has overcome limitations in previous approaches to demonstrate rapid produ...

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Applying Nano Technology to Interpret DNA Sequencing

Professor KIM Ki-bum has developed a"nanopore ion transistor" which can be used for interpreting DNA sequencing results and controling biomolecules.He succeeded to create a new ion transistor with 1~2 nanometer of nanopores. He used electron beam lithograhpy and atomic layer deposition for a sturcture of 100 nm membran...

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Indonesian Tribe Adopts Korean Alphabet as Writing System

A minority tribe in the city of 'Bauer-Bauer', located in Buton, Southeast Sulawesi, has chosen Korean alphabet Hangeul as the official alphabet to transcribe its aboriginal language.With a population of around 60,000, the tribe stood to lose its language because it had no alphabet to transcribe it. SNU professors of l...

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Why Diabetics Get Depressed and Forgetful?

It is easily noticed that diabetes patients get easily depressed and forgetful, which has been attributed to psychological causes. A research team at SNU College of Medicine has found the scientific causes for the first time.Professor LYOO In-kyoon has found a link between levels of 'glutamate' and symptoms of depressi...

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5 Additional Centimeters in Height Links to 5% Greater Cancer Risk

Professor SUNG Joohon found a new link between height and cancer risk. Sung's research team investigated 788,789 Korean men and women aged 40 to 65 from 1994 to 2003 to find an evidence links height and cancer risk. The result said, for men, every additional five centimeters in height was associated with a 5% greater r...

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Sequencing the Entire Gene Map of Korean Male

SNU has succeeded sequencing the entire gene map of a Korean male. Professor SEO Jeong-Sun, Head of the Genomic Medicine Institute at SNU College of Medicine, has led the research and published the result on Nature. The title of the paper was 'A highly annotated whole-genome sequence of a Korean individual.'To date, hu...