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Pregnancy checks, vaccinations, sick cows: The Bern Farm animal clinic, which is affiliated with the Vetsuisse Faculty, provides basic veterinary care on farms in the region – and students receive practical training.

An international study involving the University of Bern and Rega questions the current practice of administering oxygen to seriously injured patients. Less oxygen could be safer and prevent complications such as lung damage.

At the National Information Day of the Experimental Animal, researchers from the University of Bern presented their work involving animal experimentation at a booth on Casinoplatz Bern and offered interested visitors first-hand information.

Lucien Hinderling and Guido Schreurs, two researchers from the University of Bern, have received a prize and a distinction respectively in the 2025 Scientific Image Competition of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

The research community is only slowly realizing that Africa's medical care problem begins with basic knowledge. The University of Bern is helping to remedy this shortcoming – for the benefit of both the South and the North.

What influence does the gut microbiome have on us? And how can we influence it ourselves? Maria Luisa Balmer and Melanie Scalise from the Department of Biomedical Research at the University of Bern and the University Hospital Bern provide information.

In an Italian necropolis of the late Iron Age, humans and animals were buried together. Researchers at the University of Bern provide new insights into the burial practices and beliefs of a Celtic-Gallic culture.

Claudio Bassetti, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern, talks in an interview about the opportunities and challenges of digitalized medicine - and what lessons can be learned from the Corona pandemic for the medicine of the future.

Probably no medical field has felt the change of time as strongly as pathology: Soon, the diagnostic experts will leave their microscopes – and instead settle in the futuristic-looking Pathojet invented at the University of Bern.

India is facing high levels of antibiotic resistance. A tool further developed by the University of Bern together with an Indian university now offers insights into resistance patterns in northern and western India, laying the groundwork for improved awareness.

Mike Falkner develops video games for older adults with the aim to train memory and fine motor skills – and thus help prevent diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's disease.

Stavroula Mougiakakou, head of the research group for Artificial Intelligence in Health and Nutrition at the ARTORG Center in Bern, conducts applied fundamental research and with her team aims to close the gap between theory and practice.