The Virtual Laboratory is a platform that not only presents work on this topic but also acts as a research environment for new studies.
At this time, the main focus lay on the development of technological preconditions of physiological research in the 19th century.
At this time, the focus had been expanded from physiology to the life sciences in general, as well as the arts and literature.
The Virtual Laboratory consists of two parts: The archive holds a large number of digitized texts and images as well as data sheets compiled from these resources, the laboratory holds historiographical work on the experimentalization of life as well as a working environment to enable new ways of writing history.
Apart from these thematical sections, tools and myLab offer the possibility to use the Virtual Laboratory as a research environment.