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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…

Category01 2022.02.28

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…

Category01 2022.02.14

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…

Category01 2021.11.26

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…

Category01 2021.11.18

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…

Category01 2021.09.15

New blood plasma separation platform, using diamagnetic repulsion of blood cells

A research team led by Professor Joo H. Kang in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST has reported a hemolysis-free and highly efficient blood plasma separation platform. In their study, the research team used diamagnetic repulsion of blood cells to separate blood cells and…

Category01 2021.06.02

UNIST and Ulsan to Announce Successful Completion of 10,000 Ulsan Genomes Project!

On April 26, UNIST and Ulsan City officially announced that their ambitious 10,000 Genome Project has finally reached the milestone of sequencing 10,000 whole genomes. On this day, they also held a declaration ceremony to commemorate the successful completion of the Ulsan 10,000 Genome Project, which was initiated in 2016 as part of…

Category01 2021.04.28

New Study Shows Peer Pressure Could Help Teens Make Safer Choices

Peer pressure, a powerful influence in the lives of students, has rather negative connotations in society, which includes the influence of peers on juvenile delinquency and the use of alcohol or cigarettes. According to a new study, affiliated with UNIST, observing social peers making safe choices may lead some teens to make healthy…

Category01 2020.11.30

New Study Unveils 3D Human Liver-Chip Emulating Premetastatic Niche Formation by Breast Cancer-Derived EVs

A new study, affiliated with UNIST BME has unveiled the mechanisms involved in the liver metastasis of breast cancer, thanks to the three-dimensional (3D) organ-on-a-chip that mimics human liver functions. This breakthrough is expected to contribute to early detection of metastatic cancer, and thus towards…

Category01 2020.11.24