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Thomas Vogl's research team at MedUni Vienna's Center for Cancer Research aims to identify biomarkers in the gut microbiome that are associated with Long COVID. The "Global Grant for Gut Health", awarded by Yakult and Nature Portfolio, is now supporting them in this endeavour. "If we succeed in finding biomarkers that both indicate a person's risk of Long COVID and represent therapeutic targets against the disease, this could significantly improve our ability to treat and perhaps even prevent Long COVID in the future," says Thomas Vogl, summarising the importance of the research work.

Online activities can be monitored in detail simply by analysing latency fluctuations in the internet connection, researchers at Graz University of Technology have discovered.

An interdisciplinary team at TU Graz is revolutionising the design of sustainable buildings. The advantages and disadvantages of different construction measures are visualised in real time using VR simulation.

Up to 80,000 people in Austria suffer from ME/CFS or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Although, the number of people affected by COVID-19 and post-infectious syndromes will continue to rise, there is a lack of public structures specialized in the care of the disease and the needs of affected patients.

A visit to Sissy's research laboratory in Kuchl is a bit like a visit to a witch's kitchen. It smells faintly of a flower meadow and when you approach the equipment, the smells remind you of various herbal teas.

Roland Beisteiner, a specialist in neurology and psychiatry at the Department of Neurology, took up a professorship (§99/1) in the field of Neurology at MedUni Vienna at the beginning of April.

With a new strategy for research, technology, and innovation (RTI), Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (FH Salzburg) is laying a solid foundation for top-tier practical research.

Researchers at TU Wien have investigated how an artificial intelligence categorizes images. The results show astonishing similarities to visual systems in nature. How do you teach a machine to recognize objects in images? Huge progress has been made in this area in recent years. With the help of neural networks, for example, images of animals can be assigned to the respective species with a very high success rate.

A team from TU Graz has analysed the risk and damage potential of hydrogen vehicles in tunnels and derived recommendations.