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□ DGIST announced that prof. June.M. Kwak, and prof. Chang-Hee Cho are selected for the research funding program sponsored by Samsung Science & Technology Foundation .
□ Prof. Kwak was selected for the Basic Science Research and will be carrying out the project of ‘Study on the Cause and Mechanism for Plant Epidermal Cell Production’. The research intends to find answers to the operating principle of the developmental program embedded in cells and the biological phenomenon that activates the deactivated developmental program by investigating the mechanism where residuum cells secession cells in the abscission area are newly produced into the epidermal cell.
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Developing brains constantly sprout new neuronal connections called synapses as they learn and remember. Important connections the ones that are repeatedly introduced, such as how to avoid danger are nurtured and reinforced, while connections deemed unnecessary are pruned away. Adult brains undergo similar pruning, but it was unclear how or why synapses in the adult brain get eliminated.
Now, a team of researchers based in Korea has found the mechanism underlying plasticity and, potentially, neurological disorders in adult brains. They published their findings on December 23 in