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Life Published: 15 May 2025, 13:50 Researchers from Cluster of Excellence "Balance of Microverse" at the University of Jena, in collaboration with international partners, have developed a new tool that significantly simplifies and accelerates the genetic analysis of viruses.

People have always created images to explain the world to themselves - not only individually, but also as a society.

Physiologists at Jena University Hospital have used single-channel measurements to investigate the conductivity of pacemaker ion channels, which control the rhythmic activity of nerve or heart muscle cells.

Predator-prey relationships are found in virtually all'ecosystems. Even microorganisms in their world, which is invisible to the naked eye, engage in these interactions when fighting for the survival of their species.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: The increasing electrification of the chemical industry and the transport sector is increasing the global demand for sustainable and regionally available starting materials for electrochemical energy storage systems.

Finding written sources, analysing them and using the results of the analysis to answer a research question - this is how historians work.

Industrial wastewater, slurry, microplastics and heavy metals-the list of pollutants that end up in water bodies is long.

People all'over the world largely agree on what the colour blue looks like or what the shape of a ball feels like.

Numerous academic institutions from the German-speaking world left Platform X in January 2025 following a widely recognised public appeal.

Under the leadership of the Jena University Hospital, a research network is developing a mobile application that records the complaints and well-being of post-COVID patients.

Although there is a particular risk of infection, patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are often not vaccinated in accordance with specialist recommendations.

"What kind of society do we want to live in?" This is the main topic of the Germany Monitor 2024 , which has just been published.

Using medical data from more than 1,200 people, specific microbiome signatures have been identified that allow precise prediction of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).

Prehistorians from the Universities of Jena and Neuchâtel (Switzerland) have re-analysed Palaeolithic animal bone finds that were excavated in the 1970s near Saalfeld in Thuringia. The new findings support the theory that people at this time did not live in large camps from which hunting expeditions started and returned, but that they travelled in small mobile groups, following the tracks of their next prey.

They have exotic names such as gamma owl, wine hawk moth, beautiful bear or frost moth and they live largely in secret because they shy away from daylight: moths are a species-rich group of animals with 1,160 species in Germany alone.