CHANGWON, South Korea — Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), led by President Chul-jin Choi, announced that a research team led by Minyoung Lee and Sunggyu Park of the Bio & Health Materials Research Division has developed a plasmonic-based liquid biopsy platform capable of ultrasensitive detection of KRAS mutations in the blood and urine of patients with early-stage colorectal cancer. By analyzing matched tumor tissue, plasma, and urine samples from patients with Stage 0 and Stage I colorectal cancer, the researchers demonstrated over 90% concordance in KRAS mutation status across the three specimen types, supporting the platform's potential as a non-invasive precision cancer diagnostic technology.

Cutting-edge digital tools used on major infrastructure and construction projects will soon be in the hands of WA students, with a new partnership between Curtin University and Octave Intelligence set to build a future-ready workforce for Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

- A joint research team from KAIST, UNIST, Hanbat National University, Hanyang University, and Washington University in St. Louis has developed technology for automatically screening two-dimensional semiconductors only a few atomic layers thick and fabricating transistors.

 - The achievement solves a long-standing bottleneck in research on “atomically thin” materials expected to overcome the limits of conventional silicon semiconductors.

- By automating the process of manually searching for semiconductor flakes under a microscope, the technology is expected to accelerate the development of AI semiconductors and ultra-low-power semiconductors.