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    How gut bacteria could protect young adults from cancer

    »PerMiCCion« project receives further federal funding and investigates how the microbiome can contribute to the early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer
    3D visualisation of the human intestine with highlighted areas of inflammation and tumours (bright red-orange).
    Illustration: Adobe Stock / appledesign
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    Mosses help to reduce nitrogen in the forest

    Researchers at the University of Jena are investigating the lower layers of the forest ecosystem
    Forest floor covered with moss.
    Image: Till Deilmann
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    The Power of Gut Enzymes: Why Healthy Eating Affects Everyone Differently

    Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence »Balance of the Microverse«, together with international partners, have uncovered a mechanism that determines how the gut microbiome processes healthful plant compounds.
    Prof Dr Gianni Panagiotou (right) in conversation with a team colleague.
    Image: Anna Schroll
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    Majority of local insect biomass decline linked to species loss

    Study by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the University of Jena examines insect biomass in German grasslands, such as meadows and pastures
    Part of the data was collected in the Jena experiment, one of the two research programmes included in the study.
    Image: Anne Ebeling
  5. Unconventional in five dimensions

    Researchers from EAH Jena and the University of Jena are developing biocompatible micro-optics for high-tech endoscopes in a project funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
    Additively manufactured apple with a complex gyroid structure to demonstrate the extended possibilities of 5D printing.
    Image: Jens Bliedtner
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    Excellent and internationally visible

    University of Jena celebrates 15 years of the »Jena Centre for Soft Matter« and takes a look at future prospects
    Speakers and members of the JCSM during the 15th anniversary celebration (names below the text).
    Image: Hüseyin Cetin (Universität Jena)
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    Fewer ground beetles in Germany

    A research team from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the University Jena and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) analysed over 600,000 data sets.
    The mountain forest ground beetle (Carabus sylvestris) is becoming increasingly rare throughout Germany.
    Image: Ralph Martin
  8. New hope in the fight against cancer—innovations in the treatment of leukaemia

    Prof. Dr Andreas Hochhaus receives the Thuringian Research Award for applied research 2025
    Haematologist and oncologist Prof. Dr Andreas Hochhaus was awarded the Thuringian Research Prize 2025 for his research into the treatment of leukaemia.
    Image: Anna Schroll
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    Chemical imaging: Antibiotic interaction on individual bacterial cells with unprecedented resolution

    An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Daniela Täuber in Jena has successfully mapped the local chemistry and structure of the antibiotic interaction on the surface of individual bacterial cells with a resolution of a few nanometers using the model system Bacillus subtilis and vancomycin.
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    Previously uncultivable bacteria provide new insights into groundwater ecosystems

    Research team from the Cluster of Excellence »Balance of the Microverse« has succeeded in cultivating hard-to-grow microbes in the laboratory
    Groundwater samples in the laboratory in which bacteria of the Candidate Phyla Radiation are enriched under different conditions.
    Image: Martin Taubert
  11. Reliable AI systems for a changing environment

    Researchers at the University of Jena develop AI models on the consequences of climate extremes
    Prof. Dr Alexander Brenning is being supported by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung with a total of around six million euros over five years as part of its "CZS Breakthroughs" funding programme.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
  12. The emergency switch: How bacteria react to hunger at lightning speed

    Researchers of the Cluster of Excellence »Balance of the Microverse« discover previously unknown survival mechanism in freshwater bacteria
    Jena-based microbiologist Dr Kathrin Fröhlich and her team have discovered a previously unknown survival mechanism in bacteria.
    Image: Anna Schroll
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