Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

In February 1966, KIST began in a 10-pyeong room in an old Korea-Japan Bank building in Cheonggyecheon 6-ga, Seoul. Including its first director, Choi Hyung-seop, there were exactly three employees.