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Postgraduate researcher Jiwoo Choi (first author) is using a pipette tool to transfer blood components into several wells (small containers) to culture them into macrophages [Photo = KRIST] A domestic research team has found a clue to a new anticancer technology that can complement the existing CAR-T anticancer drug. Dr. Jihoon Park's team at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (President Youngguk Lee) successfully produced CAR-M (Car-M, Car-Macrophage) by stably inserting anticancer genes into macrophages derived from human peripheral blood using lentivirus. It is expected to be applied to the treatment of solid cancers in addition to blood cancers. 'Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy' is a technology that extracts T cells, which are immune cells, from the body, genetically modifies them to attack specific cancer cells, and then injects them into the patient. It is very effective in treating some blood cancers such as leukemia, b...

Greenpeace issued a statement on the 21st, saying that this ruling would be a serious threat to the activities of civic groups, after a North Dakota court in the United States ruled that the international environmental group Greenpeace must pay approximately 660 million dollars (approximately 967.89 billion won) in damages. In 2016, Greenpeace protested against the construction of a pipeline in the Dakotas, and the jury found that Greenpeace had damaged the company's reputation during the process. This lawsuit stemmed from protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2016. At the time, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe launched a strong opposition movement, citing concerns about water contamination and infringement on their sovereignty. Tens of thousands of people, including approximately 300 Native American tribes in North America, joined in solidarity. Greenpeace also actively participated in this movement. As the conflict intensified, then-Pr...

Stars and galaxies captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. [Photo = ESA/Hubble & NASA, SJ Smartt, C. Kilpatrick] They are in the same constellation Virgo, but their distances are worlds apart. On the 20th (local time), NASA released a photo of a star and a galaxy together as its 'Image of the Day'. The photo is a combination of photos taken by two Hubble Space Telescope observation devices. Both the star and the galaxy are in Virgo. When you look at the combined photo, it looks as if the galaxy and the star are shining in the same place. NASA explained that the galaxy and the star appear to be close to each other and overlap, but they are actually incredibly(?) far away. The star with four long diffraction spikes on the left side of the photo is a star in our galaxy. It is only(?) 7,109 light years away from Earth. The galaxy seen with the star, 'NGC4900', is a spiral galaxy that is a whopping 45 million light years away from Earth. For refer...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is drawing attention by signing a Samsung Electronics graphic memory. On the 20th (local time), CEO Jensen Huang visited the Samsung Electronics booth at NVIDIA's annual developer conference (GTC 2025) held in San Jose, California, USA and looked at Samsung's graphic DRAM. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is signing a graphic memory semiconductor at the Samsung Electronics booth at GTC 2025 held in San Jose, California, USA on the 20th (local time). [Photo = Yonhap News] He asked, "Is this GDDR7?" and when a Samsung Electronics official said, "Yes," he signed the product himself. GDDR7 is the graphic memory installed in NVIDIA's latest graphic card, the 'GeForce RTX 5090'. CEO Jensen Huang wrote 'Samsung', 'GDDR7 Rocks!', and 'RTX ON!' on his signature. However, it is reported that CEO Jensen Huang did not look at the high bandwidth memory (HBM) that was also exhibited at the Samsung ...

Naver's startup incubation and strategic investment organization, D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), announced on the 20th that it had made a follow-up investment in AI-based real-time markerless motion capture technology startup 'Moobin'. An official from AI-based real-time markerless motion capture technology startup Moobin is posing at their booth at 'GDC 2025', the world's largest game expo. [Photo = Naver] Naver D2SF explained that it discovered Moobin during the preliminary startup stage, made a seed investment in 2023, and made a follow-up investment after focusing on its product development performance and future growth potential. Moobin has developed a real-time markerless motion capture technology using a LiDAR (a laser that measures the distance and size between objects) sensor. By using a LiDAR sensor, spatial information such as distance and depth can be secured without distortion, allowing for more precise capture of 3D joints, bone structures,...

LG Electronics announced on the 20th that it will participate in 'AWE 2025' at the Shanghai New International Expo Center in China for four days starting on the 20th. LG Electronics has prepared AI home solutions for each space that will tailor-make suggestions for AI appliances, IoT technologies, etc. that take into account the diverse lifestyles of Asian customers at 'AWE 2025' held in Shanghai, China starting on the 20th. [Photo = LG Electronics] AWE is Asia's largest home appliance exhibition with approximately 1,000 participating companies and over 360,000 visitors, and is one of the top three global home appliance and electronics exhibitions along with CES and IFA in the United States. LG Electronics will present artificial intelligence (AI) home solutions in a 1,104㎡ exhibition hall under the theme of 'LG Electronics' Empathy Intelligence for Diverse Lifestyles' at this year's AWE. It will tailor-make suggestions for AI appliances,...

Aortic valve stenosis is a disease in which the aortic valve of the heart gradually calcifies due to aging and fails to function normally. In severe cases, it can lead to heart failure. Since there is no drug treatment available yet, the only treatment options are open chest surgery or TAVI, which involves inserting a stent to replace the aortic valve. Recently, a domestic research team announced the results of a study showing that 'spermidine', which is attracting attention as one of the anti-aging substances, can inhibit the progression of aortic valve stenosis. This is the first study result suggesting the possibility of treating aortic valve stenosis with drugs. Professor Lee Sa-min of the Department of Cardiology at Seoul Asan Medical Center is treating a patient with aortic valve stenosis [Photo = Seoul Asan Medical Center] Professor Lee Sa-min's team of the Department of Cardiology at Seoul Asan Medical Center analyzed the valve tissue of a patient wi...