Professors at College of Dentistry identified the mechanism of a protein that controls and destroys cells, possibly leading to osteoporosis. The researchers, headed by Professor Hong-Hee Kim and Eun-Ju Chang reported that the protein CK-B regulates the activation of osteoclasts, large multinuclear cells associated with...

SNU has found a new gene that plays a pivotal role in the secretion of water and electrolytes through epithelial cells of humans ― seen as a breakthrough in treating a currently incurable disease. In an article published Sunday on the Web site of Nature, a renowned British-based science journal, Prof. Oh Uh-taek of the...

It is getting colder― signs of a change of season. The mercury is dropping and humidity is changing, too. Each turning point of a season brings tough and tearful days to atopic dermatitus sufferers. Some scratch their skin raw while others find their skin haggard and reddish all over. These types of skin disease― in Eu...

Professor Kyong Soo Park at SNU Hospital analyzed a diabetic gene in Asian people and determined how it functioned. Park had jointly？conducted the research with scientists at the Korean National Institute of Health and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the？analysis of genes from 67-hundred people, the research te...

The mortality risk decrease 7 percent for each 5-cm increment in height A study shows that tall women live longer than shorter women, probably because they have gained height in a healthy environment in addition to hereditary factors. Sung Joo-hon, a professor at the Graduate School of Public Health of Seoul National U...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) facilitates the metastasis of liver cancer cells Professor Guhung Jung has discovered why liver cancer cells spread through the body, opening new possibilities for treatment of the deadly disease.Jung said that his research team at Department of Biological Sciences have been able to determ...

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer diagnosed among Korean women. Roughly one out of 40 women are diagnosed with the disease, which made up 16.8 percent of all female cancer patients in 2002, according to government data. Prof. Noh Dong-young of Seoul National University Hospital said Korean women are exper...

Professor Lee at College of Veterinary Medicine has successfully cloned four canines that can sniff out human cancer cells. It was less than three years after that Lee's team had cloned the world's first dog in 2005The research team, led by professor Byeong-chun Lee, in April implanted into a surrogate mother cloned fe...

PhD Student Han-Seok Seo's Research on Effects on Coffee Bean Aroman on the Rat Brain Stressed by Sleep DeprivationThere are people who perks up in the morning at just the smell of fresh-brewed coffee. Han-Seok Seo, a SNU student in doctoral program in Food and Nutrition, proved that just smelling the coffee bean can w...

Professor Kwon Sunghoon and his research team have successfully made a micro-mini computer keyboard with almost 70 100-㎛ components by pouring liquids onto boards. Kwon said that his team made a super-mini Eiffel Tower, Greek shrine, and computer keyboard (picture above) by cutting grooves into boards and pouring ...

[Professor Yong-Hwan Lee's Research Team] The College of Agriculture may sound like a less than glamorous academic base for Professor Yong-Hwan Lee, but he shrugs off any jokes about just sitting around watching the grass grow."Half of the world's population relies on rice as their staple food. If we exterminate rice b...

[Professor Jeong-Sun Seo's Research Team] Professor Jeong-Sun Seo and his team have been on the front lines of genomic research with their biotech startup Macrogen, launched out of Seoul National University's laboratories in 1997. This joint private-public venture fuses entrepreneurial ambition to academic know-how: Dr...