The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Oncology & Cancer

Early genome catastrophes can cause non-smoking lung cancer

Catastrophic rearrangements in the genome occurring as early as childhood and adolescence can lead to the development of lung cancer in later years in non-smokers. This finding, published in Cell, helps explain how some non-smoking-related ...

Medical research

A single, master switch for sugar levels?

A single neuron appears to monitor and control sugar levels in the fly body, according to research published this week in Nature. This new insight into the mechanisms in the fly brain that maintain a balance of two key hormones ...

Cardiology

Effective drug delivery to heart with tannic acid

Typical methods of drug delivery to the heart require surgical procedures involving incisions in the chest wall and bones. To efficiently treat cardiovascular and related vascular diseases without surgery, a KAIST research ...

Medications

AI-based analysis on drug-drug interactions involving Paxlovid

Professor Sang Yup Lee's research team in KAIST's Department of Biochemical Engineering has developed an advanced AI-based drug interaction prediction technology that analyzed the interaction between Paxlovid ingredients ...

Neuroscience

Research team identifies a neuron signal controlling molecule

A research team led by Professor Seyun Kim of the Department of Biological Sciences at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has identified inositol pyrophosphates as the molecule that strongly controls ...

Medications

Repurposed drugs present new strategy for treating COVID-19

A joint research group from KAIST and Institut Pasteur Korea has identified repurposed drugs for COVID-19 treatment through virtual screening and cell-based assays. The research team suggested the strategy for virtual screening ...

page 3 from 8