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  Bioprocessing / CDMO

  “Hamster Cells Too Costly”: Cancer Drug Made From Eggs

  As more than 70% of protein pharmaceuticals, including immune-oncology drugs, depend on Chinese hamster ovary cells, some scientists are drawing attention by studying eggs as a low-cost alternative candidate. Photo credit: Wikimedia The majority of the world’s best-selling medicines, including the r

  2026.05.08
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  Material Tech

  More Metals, More Uniform: KAIST Solves ‘Nanoparticle Paradox’

  As more metals are mixed, the resulting nanoparticles become more uniform, a principle that has now been elucidated. Nanoparticles are ultra-fine particles about one hundred-thousandth the thickness of a human hair and are key materials in advanced industries such as semiconductors, energy, and biot

  2026.05.08
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  Pharmaceutical R&D

  SK Biopharm Posts Record Q1 Profit, Speeds TPD Investment

  SK Biopharmaceuticals research center. Provided by SK Biopharmaceuticals SK Biopharmaceuticals achieved its highest-ever quarterly performance in the first quarter of 2026. With robust growth of its epilepsy treatment cenobamate driving earnings, the company is assessed to be fully activating its “B

  2026.05.07
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  Global Business

  Anduril: Korea a Global Defense Supply Hub

  Brian Schimpf, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Anduril, presents a business strategy based on collaboration with Korean companies at a press conference held on the 7th at the Four Seasons Hotel on Saemunan-ro in Jongno-gu, Seoul. Provided by Anduril “The manufacturing technology and

  2026.05.07
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  K-Defense / MOU

  Hyundai Rotem to Adopt Anduril Lattice OS for AI Command System

  Concept of Anduril’s AI-based command and control system. Provided by Anduril Hyundai Rotem is moving to build an artificial intelligence (AI)-based manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) command and control system.Hyundai Rotem announced on the 7th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) wi

  2026.05.07
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  Physical AI

  LG CNS Unveils PhysicalWorks Platform for Dynamic Factory

  LG CNS CEO Shin-kyun Hyun (President) delivers a welcome address at an LG CNS press conference on the 7th. (Provided by LG CNS) “Beep, emergency situation. The quadruped robot will stop its current task and be deployed for on-site inspection.”On 7 May, an alert signaling an unexpected situation rang

  2026.05.07
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  Persona AI

  Persona AI Demos Physical Agentic Robot at COEX Expo

  A robot demonstration is underway at a booth at the International Artificial Intelligence Expo (AI EXPO KOREA). Provided by PersonaAI. PersonaAI announced that it will participate in the 2026 International Artificial Intelligence Expo (AI EXPO KOREA), held at COEX in Seoul from the 6th to the 8th, a

  2026.05.07
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  Biopharma

  Obesity Drug Mounjaro Becomes Top-Selling Medicine Worldwide

  A pharmacist in a U.S. pharmacy holds Eli Lilly’s obesity and diabetes treatment “Mounjaro.” Mounjaro ranked as the world’s top-selling pharmaceutical product in the first quarter of 2026. Getty Images Eli Lilly & Co.’s obesity and diabetes treatment “Mounjaro” has overtaken Merck & Co.’s cancer dru

  2026.05.07
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  Diagnostics / Monitoring

  Accurately Predicting Response Before Immunotherapy

  A domestic research team has developed a personalized diagnostic technology that can precisely analyze even minute differences within tumors at the single-cell level and accurately predict therapeutic responses to immuno-oncology drugs.On the 6th, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) a

  2026.05.07
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  Investment

  AI Engine Propels 7,000P Surge in an Instant

  On the 6th, employees at the Shinhan Bank dealing room in Jung-gu, Seoul celebrate the KOSPI’s breakthrough of the 7,000 mark. On this day, the KOSPI closed at 7,384.56, up 6.45% from the previous trading day. Having fallen to 2,293.7 in April last year, the KOSPI has tripled in about a year, propel

  2026.05.07