SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean medical scientists has discovered a new protein that is related to causing lung cancer, the science ministry said Wednesday. The team led by Lee Chang-hwan of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine discovered that the protein called USE1 was more frequently found in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists are making progress in red ginseng research to counteract skin aging. According to the Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), research teams from Kyunghee University and the Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences (KIRMS) have both made breakthroughs in animal testing, with new discoveries showing that red ginseng [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean scientists have found a whole-genome sequencing of a Korean individual, raising hopes for plotting a new course to develop drugs that cater to the genetic architecture of the Korean population. The new research by Seoul National University’s Genomic Medicine Institute and biotech venture firm [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of scientists from Kyung Hee University’s College of Korean Medicine revealed Wednesday that it had found ingredients in herbal medicine to be helpful in preventing memory failure, as well as boosting memory functions. Prior to the team’s clinical trials on lab mice using herbal medicine, some 200 [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Scientists from the DGMIF (Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation) have successfully increased the effects of brain disease treatment by using ultrasound to stimulate the blood-brain barrier (BBB). According to the team, the BBB regulates drugs or metabolites flowing into the central nervous system (CNS), thus reducing the effects of therapeutic [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The season of the Nobel Prizes is back, and Koreans are once again expressing their long-lasting dream of rearing a Nobel Prize recipient in one of the fields of science (chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine). Thus far, Kim Dae-jung, the late former President of the country, has been Korea’s only [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – C&C Research Laboratories (CCRL), a joint pharmaceutical venture between South Korea and Japan, announced Monday that it will finally begin its development processes for atopy and breast cancer medicines. CCRL was established in 1992 as a 50-50 joint venture between Korea’s JW Pharmaceutical and Chugai Pharmaceutical in Japan. It [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of scientists at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) recently announced the development of technology that will allow for the mass production of carbon dioxide absorbents, which are used for post-combustion CO2 capture that could hypothetically help ease global warming resulting from excessive CO2 emissions. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Antibodies play an essential role in the viral diagnosis of crops in Korea. The antibodies used are typically derived from blood samples of laboratory animals, such as rabbits and mice infected with a specific virus, once they are naturally produced by the animals’ immune systems. This poses various setbacks. [...]
POHANG, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Tamhae II is Korea’s only geophysical survey vessel. It was built in 1996, and has since engaged in various domestic and international exploration missions for underwater resources like petroleum and gas hydrate. Its other missions also included geological mapping of the ocean floor, and detecting risk factors for potential [...]