SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Lead contamination is currently a concerning environmental issue across the globe. Earlier this month, Korea also discovered lead contamination in urethane track pads installed at elementary, middle, and high schools across Incheon, resulting in spreading uneasiness among students and parents. Lead, among other heavy metals, is better known for [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIFP) Monday, the latter’s BioNano Health Guard Research Center and Genbody have developed a test kit that can determine the presence of the Zika virus in just 20 minutes. The presence [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A major hub of lactobacillus research, the Korea Yakult Central Research Institute, celebrated its 40th anniversary Thursday. Since its establishment in June 1976, the institute’s import-substituting effect of yogurt strains in monetary value has exceeded 200 billion won. The institute, which was modeled after the Pasteur Institute in France, freed [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently published a report that identified South Korea as having the lowest percentage of jobs at risk of being replaced by robots. The report ‘The Risk of Automation for Jobs in OECD Countries’, released by the OECD on May 30, used the database [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea announced an ambitious brain-mapping project Monday, saying it would catch up with the U.S., Japan and other advanced nations in the brain science field within the next decade. The government will create a “specialized atlas” of the brain focusing on the structure and function of the parietal [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Koera Bizwire) – A recent study has discovered that out of three best-selling smartphones in the market, Apple’s iPhone 6S emits the highest levels of radiation, followed by the LG G5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S7. The National Radio Research Agency (RRA) in Korea conducted a study on the specific absorption rate (SAR) [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Robot-assisted surgery has been attracting much attention, particularly for its strikingly high cost. Catherine Mohr, the vice president of medical research at Intuitive Surgical, defended robot-assisted surgery in a lecture titled ‘Surgery’s Past, Present, and Robotic Future’ at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul, in which she explained, “Any new state-of-the-art [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean fintech firm Kona I plans to launch a biometric smart card that features an embedded fingerprint sensor, reported industry officials. The new model will be highly useful for security purposes including building access or for ID card use. “The technology will replace password or authentication certificates in confirming identification, [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Businesses are buzzing in excitement with the news that genetic testing services will be allowed at private enterprises without having to go through medical institutions starting on June 30. According to an industry official on May 25, the Ministry of Health and Welfare recently made an announcement of the list of genes [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Domestic researchers successfully investigated the functioning process of a protein named Down Syndrome Critical Region 1 (DSCR1), one of the known causes of Down syndrome. The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) revealed on May 23 its discovery that protein DSCR1 advances the axis cylinder process of [...]