Thuringia is home to famous innovations and discoveries, from the microscope and the X-ray tube to the thermometer and the glass eye. Penicillin, too, was produced here for the first time on an industrial scale in Germany, and scientists from Jena were involved in decipher-ing human chromosomes 8, 21 and X.

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