ChemDiv and Berlex Announce Lead Compound Discovery Collaboration

Merck Appoints New Heads of Discovery Solutions and Strategy & BD for Life Science

Appointments strengthen the Life Science leadership team as the business advances its strategy and innovation agenda

Two technology start-ups at TH Mannheim receive millions in funding from the federal government

Energy-efficient technology for long-life food and improved radiation protection in the operating theater

Bacterial factories: A key to climate-friendly chemistry

ETH spin-off uses genetically modified microorganisms and green methanol as an intermediate step in fossil-free chemical production

Gilead Sciences and Lakefront Complete Acquisition of Ouro Medicines to Further Expand Inflammation Pipeline

Companies will collaborate on the development of gamgertamig, a potential first-in-class and best-in-class T cell engager in autoimmune diseases

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

Diagnostics start-up LotusDx establishes R&D laboratory at ONE BioHub to advance at-home STI testing

A bootcamp prize accelerated the move

Launch of TechBio firm, Lucera, brings decision intelligence to drug development

Well-established pharmaceutical technology business of Molecular Health sold to consortium of life science and private equity investors to form Lucera

Laverock Therapeutics awarded in excess of £2.2M in grants for gene-control platform

Two new grants fund the scaling of T-cell products and expansion into non-oncology indications

First European biotech with CAR-T and LNP technology under one roof

T-CURX integrates Pantherna Therapeutics, bringing together 16 patent families and 35 employee

hephaistos.bio obtains CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick

Swiss biotech start-up aims to bring tailor-made enzymes to resilient and sustainable chemical manufacturing

Pfizer and Innovent Biologics collaborate on 12 ADC and antibody programmes in global billion-dollar deal

The collaboration aims to advance innovative cancer medicines – Innovent is eligible for up to $9.85 billion in milestone payments

14 start-up teams in three years: further funding for healthcare accelerator in Regensburg

BioPark Jump is aimed at entrepreneurs in the healthcare and life sciences sectors

KyDo Therapeutics wins the 2026 MATWIN award for the best drug-based innovation project in oncology

A panel of oncology experts from nine pharmaceutical companies selected the biotech start-up for its covalent-allosteric small molecule inhibitors

Closure of the Strait of Hormuz exacerbates cost pressure in the chemical industry

"Chemistry is struggling, pharma is preparing for even greater challenges"

Asahi Kasei Life Science Acquires License for Novel Antibody-Drug Conjugate Technology from The Noguchi Institute

A Major Milestone for More Efficient and Safer Cancer Treatments

New alliance for research-based spin-offs: Renowned research institutions join forces

The new “Academic Spin-out Alliance” aims to facilitate more academic spin-offs in collaboration with the Vienna Business Agency

Cohere acquires biopharma AI specialist Reliant AI

Through this acquisition, Cohere aims to expand its AI capabilities for the global biopharma and healthcare sectors

Lilly is acquiring three vaccine companies for up to $3.8 billion

Three acquisitions targeting shingles, drug-resistant bacteria, and EBV

Million-euro investment: Westfalen doubles industrial gases capacities in Switzerland

Capacity in Eiken is almost doubled and secures gas supply for customers in the pharmaceutical, laboratory, medical, beverage, welding and cutting sectors

Berlin honors outstanding deep-tech companies

Deep Tech Award 2026 presented for the first time at the Deep Tech Momentum conference

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

The ‘Ozempic Era’ could shift blame for obesity from individuals to the food industry

How weight-loss injections could reinforce the perception of ultra-processed foods as addictive substances

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

NanoStruct secures €2.6 million for faster bacterial analysis in food

Nanostructured sensor chips combined with AI are set to replace laboratory tests that take several days

Dietary changes in older people can improve ‘biological age’

An omnivorous diet high in carbohydrates is the most reliable way to lower biological age

Europe is pooling billions to turn biotech companies into global champions

EQT will manage the €5 billion fund, investing in biotech, AI and other key technologies

From the lab to the next generation of startups

IBT Lower Saxony funds research projects from Göttingen and Braunschweig with almost 2.4 million euros

One Molecule, Two Effects: A New Drug Concept to Treat Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

Merck upgrades full-year guidance and expects revenue of up to €21.4 billion

New CEO Kai Beckmann announces adaptation to the operating model

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

The olive as a laboratory

A new analytical approach predicts the quality of olive oil before it is extracted

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

Reduce, remove and modify: Research team "cuts" wheat chromosomes to size

Study paves the way for faster breeding

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

Food processing and packaging machinery industry in good shape

Reversible glue technology goes electric

Water-based adhesive joins electronic components and releases them on demand

Improving taste and texture in oat drinks

Greek-Swedish scientist selected as finalist for the European Inventor Award 2026

Job cuts at WACKER: Around 1,600 jobs in Germany affected

Global cost-cutting and efficiency program PACE aims to generate annual savings of over 300 million euros

Sunfire to Build Electrolysis Test Facility at BASF Site in Schwarzheide

Test facility supports the industrial-scale deployment of green hydrogen

Recovering critical materials from batteries

Chinese inventors selected as finalists for the European Inventor Award 2026

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry