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13 Oct 2020 · Life

Research

Bacterial toxin with healing effect

Research team uncovers that a toxic substance found in Staphylococcus aureus stimulates tissue regeneration

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The pharmacist and doctoral student Paul Jordan prepares bacterial cultures (Staphylococcus aureus).

Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

8 Oct 2020 · Life · Liberty

Research

What time is it on your biological clock?

Interdisciplinary research team receives up to 4.5 million euros in funding from the Carl Zeiss Foundation

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Brain structures of a zebrafish embryo are examined under a fluorescence microscope.

Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

7 Oct 2020 · Light

Research

Intelligent nanomaterials for photonics

Physicists and chemists at the University of Jena engineer optical fibres with 2D materials

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PhD student Quyet Ngo studies optical fibres functionalised by 2D materials.

Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

5 Oct 2020 · Life

Research

Hunger encourages risk-taking

Meta-analysis shows that in animals, difficult living conditions increase risk-taking behaviour in later life

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Dangerous food search: A swarm of fish meets a blacktip reef shark.

Image: Oliver Krüger

25 Sep 2020 · Light

Research

New storage battery more efficient and heat-resistant

Chemists at the University of Jena develop new polymer electrolytes for redox flow batteries

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Test setup at CEEC Jena to develop novel active materials for redox flow batteries.

Image: Philipp Borchers/Uni Jena

22 Sep 2020 · Light

Research

Water trapped in star dust

Astrophysicists prove that dust particles in space are mixed with ice

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Clouds of interstellar dust and gas, here in the region "Cygnus-X" in the Swan constellation.

Image: ESA [1]

8 Sep 2020

Research · Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

Plastic can be sustainable

Jena research group receives two million euros to research intelligent, recyclable plastic materials

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The University of Jena is researching sustainable, intelligent plastics.

Image: Jens Meyer (Universität Jena)

3 Sep 2020

Research · Awards and Personnel

Towards new algorithms and discretization

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Gallistl awarded an ERC Starting Grant

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The Jena mathematician Prof. Dr Dietmar Gallistl receives an ERC Starting Grant.

Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

1 Sep 2020 · Life

Research

Tiny bodyguards

Helper bacteria stop and disarm pathogens

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Mixed culture of fungal pathogen Pseudomonas tolaasii and helper bacterium Mycetocola tolaasinivorans.

Image: Leibniz-HKI

1 Sep 2020 · Light · Life

Event(s) · International Affairs

Virtual microbial talk

International online conference on microbial and biomolecular interactions

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Spokespersons of the CRC ChemBioSys: Christian Hertweck (l.) and Georg Pohnert in the studio.

Image: Alena Gold

31 Aug 2020 · Life

Research · International Affairs

Virus research and bioinformatics

International training programme wins nearly €4 million in EU funding. ‘VIROINF’ started its work on 1 September.

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Prof. Dr Manja Marz heads the new international training network at the University of Jena.

Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

7 Aug 2020

Research

Intermittent Claudication: EffPac trial confirms benefit and safety of paclitaxel-coated balloon catheter

A study to balloon angioplasty with drug-coated and uncoated balloons in vascular occlusion in the femoropopliteal region...

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German EffPac trial confirms benefit and safety of paclitaxel-coated balloon catheter angioplasty.

Image: Michael Szabó/UKJ