Professor PARK Young Jun of SNU’s Department of Electrical Engineering and his research team have developed a high performance biosensor with the world's greatest sensitivity and measuring range. SNU announced that the research team has succeeded in creating a"nano biosensor chip", a combination of nano material and se...

Professor LYOO In Kyoon of the SNU College of Medicine and Professor KIM Ji Eun of Ewha Womans University's Department of Cognitive Science have discovered the relation between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They conducted a 5-year observation of 30 survivors from ...

SNU College of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor YOON Byung Dong and his research team have developed ‘EH Skin’ to convert waste energy into electricity. "While commuting home, I take out my smart-phone and turn on the air conditioner at home, A few minutes later, there’s a pop-up notice which informs me t...

SNU Professor HAN Jae Yong of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and his research team have discovered a microRNA (miRNA) (a short RNA molecule which regulates the target messenger RNA transcripts and causes gene repression) that maintains undifferentiated properties of blastoderm and primordial germ cells (P...

SNU Professor LEE Yin-Won of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemistry has been nominated to become a fellow of the American Phytopathological Society. Professor Lee, renowned world-wide for his research on filamentous fungi, was recognized for his excellent research achievements on fungus toxin biosynthesis and ...

Professor CHAR Kookheon of the SNU School of Chemical and Biological Engineering was appointed a Gutenberg Research College Fellow by the Gutenberg Research College (GRC, affiliated with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). A Gutenberg Research College Fellow holds a special researcher rank of international author...

At the 10th International Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting held in Manchester, England, from May 23-25, 2011, “Ilsungrok” was accepted for inscription on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies of SNU houses this significant historical record. “Ilsungrok” consists of 2,329 v...

The ‘central dogma’ of biology that genetic information of DNA in cell nuclei decides the vital phenomena of human bodies is to be shaken to its core by Korean researchers. The accepted explanation was that protein is created on the basis of RNA, copied information of DNA. In other words, DNA was thought to be the orig...

People who belong to the category of Obese Class 1 of the body mass index (hereinafter, “BMI”) are more susceptible to diabetes than people within normal weight range by 50 percent. People who belong to the category of Obese Class 2 are twice as likely to develop diabetes. Body mass index is defined as an individual's ...

Thomson Reuters published its Global Research Report: Materials Science and Technology on July 1, which contains a careful review of data collected over a period of ten years -- from early 2001 to the beginning of 2011. This 16-page report provides information on the leading institutions and universities for materials ...

Korean researchers have succeeded in proliferating stem cells more than double by using minute electric currents instead of expensive culture fluid. Professor SUH Yoo Hun of SNU’s College of Medicine and Professor KIM Sung June of the College of Engineering announced on May 27 that as a result of stimulation of stem ce...

Plants grow day by day during summer, but stop growing in the wintertime. During this time, they can look so dried up that they even seem dead. Also, they grow during the day but do not grow during the night. What controls the bio-rhythm of plants? Recently the answer to this question was discovered by an SNU research ...