SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Family DNA samples of more than half of the South Korean troops killed and unaccounted for in the 1950-53 Korean War have been collected as part of efforts to recover their remains, the defense ministry said Thursday. As of Wednesday, the ministry’s war remains excavation agency collected DNA samples [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run National Center for the Rights of the Child said Thursday that it had found and reunited 33 children who have been missing for a long time with their families through DNA tests. This achievement is the result of a joint campaign to find missing children that has [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean and American research teams have succeeded in raising the effects of a COVID-19 vaccine by a factor of 100 through the oriental medicine practice of cupping, which is normally used to treat muscle pain. A joint research team led by Prof. Hao Lin from Rutgers University and Dr. [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC San Diego have mapped out how hundreds of mutations involved in two types of cancer affect the activity of proteins that are the ultimate actors behind the disease. The work points the way to identifying new precision treatments that may skirt [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A 47-year-old Korean-born woman adopted by an American family 44 years ago has reunited with her biological family after conducting a DNA test through a South Korean mission in the United States, the foreign ministry said Friday. On Thursday, Yoon Sang-ae, now an American citizen, had a tearful video [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a technology that uses genetic markers to find lost cats. Genetic markers refer to a gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) announced Tuesday that it [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas Korean adoptees will find it easier to search for their biological parents or family beginning next year as they will be able to have their genes collected and registered with South Korean diplomatic missions, officials here said Thursday. According to the National Police Agency (NPA) and the foreign [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have decided to start tracking long-term missing persons by comparing genetic information of Korean individuals reported as missing and U.S. adoptees. The National Police Agency plan to share information on long-term missing persons with the U.S.-based Korean American adoption program known as 325KAMRA. The project is being carried [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS became the first South Korean boy band to hit 600 million views on YouTube with the music video for their song “DNA”. Big Hit Entertainment said that the music video reached 600 million views at 7:18 p.m. on Wednesday. The music video uses various transitional effects as if [...]
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INO) announced today that three recent published studies of its DNA-Encoded monoclonal antibody (dMAb™) technology showed impressive results in treating cardiovascular disease and in preventing infection from the Ebola virus and Lyme disease-causing bacteria in preclinical models. Leveraging several recent published positive preclinical [...]