A team of Korean researchers has, for the first time in the world, developed a technology capable of enabling early diagnosis of major neurological disorders including epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and schizophrenia using only a small amount of saliva. This study was conducted jointly by a research team led by Dr. Sung-Gyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), together with Prof. Ho Sang Jung’s team at Korea University and researchers from the College of Medicine at The Catholic University of Korea. The research has recently been published in Advanced Materials, one of the world’s leading journals in the field of materials science, drawing significant international attention.

An interdisciplinary team at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is using state-of-the-art eye-tracking technology to pinpoint the physical characteristics of spiders that may contribute to arachnophobia.