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UNIST Celebrates Researchers on Highly Cited Researchers 2022 List

Ten UNIST researchers have once again distinguished themselves with inclusion in the prestigious ‘Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)‘ for 2022. This was the highest ever achieved among universities in South Korea, this year. Clarivate Plc., a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation,...

Reliable Diagnostics at the Tip of Your Finger

Their findings have been published in the May 2022 issue of Advanced Materials and the associated illustration was also selected for the frontispiece in the current issue. Direct and sensitive analysis of clinical samples for point-of-care diagnostics. Biomarkers are components that may be present in biological samples...

Scientists develop New Platform Technology for Personalized Cancer Therapy

The work by Distinguished Professor Kyungjae Myung's team has been published in PNAS. A new therapy called CINDELA (Cancer-Specific InDel Attacker) employs CRISPR-Cas9 to kill cancer cells without affecting normal tissues. Diagnosis of cancers may be one of the worst news to patients and their families. Conventional...

New Study Unveils Subjective Optimality in Finite Sequential Decision-Making

Their findings have been published in the December 2021 issue of PLoS Comput. Biol. There are many decision problems in life that are sequential and constrained by a certain time window. Although mathematically derived optimal solutions exist, it has been reported that humans often deviate from...

New Study Unveils Humans Use Forward Thinking to Exploit Social Controllability

A research team, affiliated with UNIST recently published a study that looked at how people exploit the controllability of their social environment. To understand how a sense of control over others may influence the brain’s decision-making processes, the research team tested the ability of healthy...

Seven UNIST Faculty Named to Highly Cited Researchers 2021 List

Seven UNIST researchers have once again distinguished themselves with inclusion in the prestigious ‘Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)‘ for 2021, compiled annually by Clarivate Plc. Published on November 16, the annual list includes researchers with multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their...

Scientists Explore the Creation of Artificial Organelles

The findings of this research have been published and selected as the front cover of Nature Catalysis on September 14, 2021. The human body is made of numerous different types of cells, which have small compartments known as organelles to perform complex biochemical reactions. These compartments...