Korea Institute of Toxicology

Optimizing the Structural Integrity of Gwapyeon with Red Bull Ⓡ and Enhancing Consumer Acceptability: A Comparison of Corn, Mung Bean, and Potato Starch

Gwapyeon, a traditional Korean fruit starch-based gel, offers a unique matrix for functional food diversification.This study investigated the technical feasibility of incorporating a commercial energy beverage (Red Bull Ⓡ ) into a gwapyeon system and evaluated how the source and...

KiGEP: a quantitative algorithm for calculating human kidney similarity and nephrotoxicity in human kidney organoids

Kidney organoids (KOs) are being actively developed and used as models for evaluating nephrotoxicity, which is an important process during drug development. To evaluate human pluripotent stem cell-derived KOs, various lineage markers have been used to confirm KO differentiation v...