A research team at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has discovered a new mechanism to treat Huntington’s disease, the state institute said MondayHuntington's disease, also known as Huntington's chorea, is a genetic defect that is a degenerative brain disease in which hands and feet move spontaneously under extreme conditions due to extensive damage to neurons of the striatu
A Korean research team has discovered for the first time in the world that the primary factor that determines human intelligence quotient (IQ) is the network of several architectures of the brain. The research team of the Psychiatric Health Department at Seoul National University Hospital announced Monday that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the network between the parietal-cerebellum
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, Director Lee Byung-kwon) has succeeded in developing the technology for evaluating the toxicity of anticancer drugs using small caenorhabditis elegans, or roundworms. These nematodes are a 1-millimeter transparent bug that resides in soil and consists of over 900 somatic cells, 300 neurons, and 20,000 genes, KIST said in a press release Mond
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has developed a new method to diagnose prostate cancer quickly and accurately with only a small amount of urine.The researchers hope to overcome the limitations of conventional diagnostic methods that use invasive techniques, and diagnose prostate cancer more accurately, KIST said Thursday.Academic studies show malignant prostate cancer rate
Continuous drug treatments can drastically reduce the mortality risks of people with uncomplicated hypertension, a recent research has shown.The study was part of the project to develop technology to conquer diseases with financial support from the Ministry of Health and Welfare 보건복지부 and Korea Health Industry Development Institute한국보건산업진흥원(KHIDI). Professors Lee Chan-joo이찬주, Kim Hyeon-cha
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, indeed: With the dust storm suffocating the Korean Peninsula every spring, some companies are profiting off the seasonal annoyance, releasing products marketed as protection from fine dust.According to the Ministry of Environment, the concentration level of fine dust was at its worst in the first quarter of 2017, at 32 micrograms per cubic meter, up
People catch fish to eat or watch, with the latter case limited to some aquarium fish. Brazilian doctors have recently added one more use – treating burn patients.According to international journals, physicians in Fortazela, Brazil, cover burn patients with fish skin, or more correctly “sterilized tilapia,” which helps patients recover at a much faster rate.Doctors in Fortezela are tes
Koreans with specific gene types can show higher efficacy and bigger by-effects concerning certain drugs, a recent study shows.It has been known people suffering from the malfunction of specific liver enzymes or gene mutation in drug transporters experience the rise of blood concentration of medications when they take some antidepressants or gastric ulcer treatments.This is the first time,
A group of Korean researchers has developed the world’s first mouse model, which can alter body proteins to cause cancer, dementia and other degenerative diseases, government officials said Monday.The joint team of KAIST and Ajou University carried out the project as part of research tasks selected by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and published its results on Nature Communications, an
People suffering from back trouble complain that doctors appear indifferent to unbearable pains inflicting them. True, many physicians regard pains as inevitable for some diseases and focus on treatments.Dr. Ryu Ju-seok, a neuropathy expert, is not one of them. Ryu has recently won the Best Paper award by the Association of Academic Physiatrists of the United States. AAP gives the award once a
Korean Radiologists and related professionals are exposed to a higher level of radiation than their Japanese and German counterparts.An annual report (‘2015 Annual Report of Radiation Exposure Levels of Radiologists’) published by Centers for Disease Control & Prevention of Korea revealed that the average level of radiation for radiologists and related professionals in Korea has steadily decre
In the summer of 2016, a team assembled at the Royal College of Surgeons in London for one of the most special medical procedures: A post mortem (after death). But there is a difference in this post mortem: the team was specifically looking at how obesity affected the body. And the procedure will be filmed. It was a unique event and it raised a whole lot of ethical and practical challenges, includ
A woman in London broke a world record by becoming the first to give birth after having one of her ovaries frozen before puberty.Moaza Al Matrooshi who is 24 years old, was born with a blood disorder and if it was left untreated, could have killed her.She had her ovary tissue detached before she had chemotherapy, which is known to damage organs, to overcome her rare disease. Doctors de
The role of salt has been an important topic in the field of public health with the increase of fast-food culture.Excess salt intake is believed to be a human health risk; however, recent studies drew attention to the role of fetuses in growth of babies and development of diseases in adulthood.It has been suggested that salt restriction during pregnancy has a critical influence on the fetu