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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Females of an Asian species of water strider keep their genitalia hidden to avoid any forceful copulation attempts, and expose them only after males produce a courtship “song” by tapping the water surface, according to a new study of Professor Piotr Jablonski and his graduate students CHANG Seok Han.CHANG and Jablonski...

The successful use of any new material in electronic applications depends not only on its electrical characteristics but on how easily it can be formed into the patterns needed for building complex device structures. For organic materials - which hold great promise for making low cost and large area electronics - conve...

The study of insulator-metal transitions (IMT) in transition metal oxides, where conductivity changes from an insulator to a metal, is important for understanding phenomena such as superconductivity. For the first time, Professor NOH Tae Won at Dept. of Physics has controlled IMT in a series of 5d transition metals com...

SNU created a highly efficient light emitting diode (LED) that can help develop next-generation displays and computerchips. Professor LEE Changhee, professor CHAR Kookheon and professor LEE Seonghoon said they have perfected a new production method that can produce high-quality greenquantum dot LEDs with superior brigh...