Korea’s Top 10 Biology News Announced
Korea’s Top 10 Biology News Announced
  • Reporter Kim Eun-ji
  • 승인 2010.01.01 20:59
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The Biology Research Information Center (BRIC) announced the ‘Top 10 Domestic Biology News of 2009’ on Dec. 7 based on the results from 751 respondents. This year’s keyword for biology-related news in Korea was H1N1 flu virus and other responses included biosimilar, integration and the construction of a high-tech medical complex.

In this survey, five highlighted research items of the year and five other non-research issues were selected. BT researchers, who replied to the science survey site (SciON) ran by BRIC, and the advisory committee from BRIC made the final top 10 list. The nominees were chosen from the researches done in Korea among the papers registered on BRIC’s ‘Proud Korean Researchers.’


The five noted research items of the year were (in non-specific order):

◎ Examination into new mechanism for tumour metastasis control (Prof. Seol JH’s lab at SNU)
◎ Research into the regulation of age-dependent cell death and senescence in Arabidopsis (Prof. H.G. Nam’s lab at POSTECH)
◎ Examination into the mechanism of sepsis by LPS of Gram negative bacteria (Prof. Jie-Oh Lee’s lab at KAIST)
◎ A highly annotated whole-genome sequence of a Korean individual (Prof. Jeong-Sun Seo’s lab at GMI-SNU)
◎ Discovery of new proteins responsible for regulation of microRNA biogenesis (Prof. V. Narry Kim’s lab at SNU)


The five non-research issues are:


◎ H1N1 flu virus altering rankings of pharmaceutical industries
◎ Possibility of H1N1 becoming a pandemic
◎ The era of biosimilar
◎ Conditional acceptance of somatic stem cell research
◎ Number of papers published in the area of life science considering GDP ranks first in the world