DAEJEON, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team has developed an adjuvant that can help vaccines work better. The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology said Thursday that researchers had developed an adjuvant that acts as a fake RNA virus to make it easier for the vaccine to penetrate the cell and invigorate the immune [...]
SEJONG, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A new smartphone app allows users to check their current mental state. Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital announced Thursday that it had developed inPHRsym, a smartphone app that can monitor and manage a user’s various mental illness such as anxiety and panic attacks. As the so-called ‘corona blues’ – [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean health authorities said Thursday that homegrown plasma therapy treatment for the novel coronavirus has shown efficacy against mutations. The treatment was found to have created neutralizing potency against seven strains — S, V, L, G, GH, GR and GV — as well as the two most-known mutations, [...]
DAEJEON, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — When oriental medicine doctors perform acupuncture treatment, their active interactions with patients help improve the effect of such treatment, a study showed Wednesday. In collaboration with the Harvard Medical School, the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine carried out a joint clinical test on 23 patients suffering from fibromyalgia for [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Wednesday it has developed a new adjuvant that can bolster the effectiveness of vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The new adjuvant, dubbed “rpHSP70-AD,” is capable of developing antibodies at a faster pace while coping with various strains of FMD, according to the Ministry of [...]
DAEJEON, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Basic Science Institute announced on Tuesday that it had developed a molecular compound ‘probe’ that creates fluorescent signals by reacting specifically to cancer tissue. The oxygen density of cancer tissue areas increases along with the proliferation of cancer cells in the human body. Research is actively underway [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday began vaccinating people aged 65 and older at nursing homes and long-term care hospitals nationwide as scheduled, amid a mix of excitement and anxiety. More than 370,000 inpatients in the age group, caretakers and medical staff at such facilities are scheduled to get vaccinated in [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The COVID-19 pandemic may have upended the global health care industry as social distancing practices limit physical contact with patients, but its fallout has triggered faster adoption of digital medical services, such as telemedicine, in South Korea. LifeSemantics Corp., a Seoul-based startup that went public Tuesday on the local [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Elderly individuals who suffer from executive function disorder (EFD), a type of cognitive disorder, are up to seven times more likely to commit suicide than elderly people without EFD, a research showed Monday. A research team from Seoul National University Hospital said it had confirmed this fact after seven [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers has developed an artificial lung modeled after the human lung with complex structures for use in experiments. A research team from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) announced on Monday that it had succeeded in developing an artificial lung model through 3-D printing. Thus [...]