SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have discovered that a common native plant shows promising results in suppressing norovirus, offering potential hope for preventing the widespread winter illness. The National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) announced on March 12 that extracts from Duchesnea chrysantha, a wild strawberry species native to Korea, demonstrated significant [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 90 percent of all tickets at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics have been sold, according to the organizing committee Saturday. “The rate of tickets sold has reached 92.8 percent, with 991,000 of the total 1,068,000 tickets at the Games sold,” Sung Baik-you, spokesperson for the PyeongChang [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 194 cases of norovirus infections have been confirmed as of Monday, since the outbreak in the Olympic host town last week, organizers of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics said. The organizing committee said that as of 4 p.m. on Monday, 17 additional people were found to have [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A government-backed South Korean research institute that owns a high-speed norovirus diagnosis solution has landed a deal with American medical firm GermainLab that will see the copyright for the technology exchanged between the two parties in return for royalties. The norovirus diagnosis technology was developed by a research team [...]