Press Releases

A team at the Helmholtz Institute for Infection Research in Würzburg, Germany, led by RNA expert Chase Beisel, has developed a new technology for the precise detection of RNA using DNA-cutting Cas12 nucleases.

Artificial intelligence can detect lies much better than humans. This also has an impact on social interaction, as a recently published study shows.

On 3 July 2024, a group of "Students for Palestine" set up a camp on the university campus. The university management takes a stand.

Parents and upbringing play a major role in determining how often children lie. This behavior can be positively influenced with simple measures. This is shown by a new study by economists from Würzburg, Bonn and Oxford.

In an emergency, ants bite off injured limbs of fellow ants to ensure their survival. Whether they take this radical step depends on the location of the wound.

A team from the University of Würzburg is developing an AI-based attitude control system that will allow satellites to maneuver autonomously. The new technology will be tested in space.

There are still more men than women in STEM subjects - despite years of intensive efforts to change this. JMU alumna Susanne Knotzer explains why this is the case.

Researchers at the Würzburg Helmholtz Institute for Infection Research led by RNA expert Chase Beisel have developed a new approach to DNA transformation and gene mutation in bacteria.

Würzburg researchers from the Bavarian initiative Solar Technologies Go Hybrid are reporting progress on the road to more efficient utilisation of solar energy: they have developed an innovative light-harvesting system.

A Czech-Bavarian research team is developing an artificial intelligence that specialises in gastroscopy. The AI is intended to assist doctors with diagnoses.

The specialist magazine China.Table ranks Professor Doris Fischer and Professor Björn Alpermann from the University of Würzburg among the ten leading minds in China studies in Germany.

What effect do economic sanctions have on the countries affected, such as Russia or Iran? Economists from Würzburg, Kiel, Berlin and Bielefeld have analysed these questions.

A low vitamin B6 level has negative effects on brain performance. A research team from Würzburg University Medicine has now found a way to delay the degradation of the vitamin.

Würzburg researchers contradict the statement of a US psychologist. They want to initiate an objective and scientifically sound discussion with a thesis paper.

The Collection of Antiquities in the Martin von Wagner Museum at the University of Würzburg is at risk of losing numerous important loans. For this reason, those responsible have now launched a fundraising campaign.