Biotech startup acquires german subsidiary of Bristol Myers Squibb

Billion-Dollar Deal for Cancer Antibody: BioNTech and Bristol Myers Squibb Join Forces

"...an asset with significant potential for transforming the standard of care for patients with solid tumors"

digital lab day 2025 celebrates international success

virtual battery day 2025 follows in November

Digital change at Waldner

Waldner Group enters into strategic partnerships to strengthen digital transformation

Strüngmann Award Committee Announces Finalists Recognizing Outstanding Life Science Entrepreneurs in the DACH Region

The award celebrates the next generation of leaders advancing a great idea into reality

Novel Therapies in Reproductive Medicine and Women’s Health

ReproNovo Raises $65 Million Series A Financing

Start-up Looppack receives special prize

Competition for bioeconomy start-up ideas supports innovations for a climate-friendly economy

Sanofi to acquire Vigil Neuroscience, Inc., adding a new investigational medicine to treat Alzheimer’s disease to the neurology pipeline

Waters Acquires Halo Labs, Expanding Biological Analysis Portfolio

German biotech sector: innovation and start-up activity on the rise, turnover and employment on the decline

Increased early-stage investments and full pipelines give hope

PL BioScience and DewCell to jointly develop artificial human platelets for scalable cell culture media

"This collaboration is an important step on the way to replacing conventional products of animal origin"

Merck and imec Collaborate to Develop Disruptive Microphysiological Systems Platform

The collaboration programme is open to further partners

Millions in funding for promising therapy for rare diseases

Azafaros Secures € 132M in Oversubscribed Series B Financing

Syntegon delivers record results in 2024

New strategy fuels accelerated growth following CEO transition in late 2023

DHL transforms DHL Health Logistics campus in Florstadt into a European pharmaceutical hub as part of its multi-billion investment strategy

Life Sciences & Healthcare campus in the heart of Europe to become a backbone of DHL’s global Health Logistics network

Merck Continues to Deliver Growth in Turbulent Times

The company remains confident it will deliver sustainable growth for the year

Overwhelming success: digital lab day 2025 impresses across the board

International platform for laboratory digitization extended by one week

Millions for RNA therapies from the “dark genome”

Swiss biotech start-up develops precision drugs with long non-coding RNA

New leather alternative: plastic-free, vegan and biodegradable

DBU supports green start-up Revoltech GmbH

Bayer confirms 2025 targets after solid start to the year

Five-year plan for Crop Science to strengthen the company

QIAGEN acquires Genoox

"As part of QIAGEN, we can together drive the next wave of precision medicine"

Artificial sweeteners cause confusion in the brain

Artificial sugar substitutes stimulate the appetite in the brain and influence the ability to make decisions

Chronic Sleep Disorder or Busy Whiling Away Time?

A meta-study shows that sleep disorders and sleep deprivation leave different traces in the brain

Identifying pathogens within minutes instead of days

Mass spectrometry detects bacteria without time-consuming isolation and multiplication

Power vaccination against cancer boosts the immune system

New hope: Researchers are mobilising the immune system's defence against tumour cells within just two weeks using a two-phase vaccination regimen

Bacterium Produces “Organic Dishwashing Liquid” to Degrade Oil

A study has illuminated the mechanism by which this marine creature produces the detergent

Heidelberg start-up develops system for precise drug monitoring with just one drop of blood

Start-up portrait: QuantiLight revolutionizes blood tests with home monitoring platform

Highly Reactive Catalyst Enables Labeling of Biologically Active Compounds

New reactivity enables conversion of seemingly “unreactive” molecule parts

Understanding which proteins work together

Findings could improve the search for new drugs with fewer side effects.

Chlorotonil: Game-Changer in the Fight Against Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens

Researchers decipher novel mode of action of natural product antibiotic

Gene-editing in spiders for the first time

Offspring produce red fluorescent silk fibres

How aging changes the blood system

A few stem cells, or “clones”, outcompete their neighbours and gradually take over blood production

An unexpected bacterial blocker

Researchers discover novel compound that inhibits the growth of tumor-associated Fusobacteria

Swiss start-up gives yesterday's plastics a new purpose

DePoly to launch 500-tonne-per-year showcase plant, as it secures $23M

Unilever reaches new business arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel

Unilever announced it has reached a new arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which will ensure the ice cream stays available to all consumers

Battery research: visualisation of aging processes operando

‘A lot happens at the interfaces between the anode, separator and cathode while a battery is charging or discharging’

Glyphosate can come from detergent additives

Research team produces evidence of a previously unknown source of the controversial herbicide in bodies of water

Pineapple juice is scarce and expensive due to a small harvest

Understanding carbon traps

Physical probing of a promising material shows exactly how it locks CO₂ into place

Metal nonwovens: material for the batteries of the future

Start-up commercializes nonwoven electrodes: "With our technology, we have the chance to catch up with Asian manufacturers and be better"

A new method identifies rancid hazelnuts without removing them from the bag

New model predicts a chemical reaction’s point of no return

Chemists could use this quick computational method to design more efficient reactions that yield useful compounds, from fuels to pharmaceuticals

How gas bubbles influence hydrogen production

New findings are relevant for all electrolysis processes

Mondelēz International Continues Progress Against “Snacking Made Right” Priorities

Solid-state batteries: powerful alternative to lithium-ion batteries developed

Revolution through liquid alkali metal anodes

Blackberries with no thorns? Scientist assembles genome of a blackberry in major step to breed better fruit

Artificial intelligence in modern chemistry: comparison between humans and machines

"The possibilities of artificial intelligence in Chemistry are attracting increasing interest - so we wanted to find out how good these models really are"

UtZ® Introduces New Limited-Time Flavors and A Redesigned Barrel For Cheese Balls

elementarhy Revolutionizes with New Technology Previously Costly Hydrogen Production

Start-up aims to become a pioneer for green hydrogen

Label battle: Paulaner wins in dispute against Karlsberg brewery

Significant breakthrough in the chemistry of fluorinated compounds

Overcoming the “Fluoro Wall”: Researchers observe tunneling effect of heavy atoms for the first time

Design2Market: New delivery box for Frittenwerk in just 6 weeks

Unique molecule may lead to smaller, more efficient computers

A new type of molecule could offer a groundbreaking material for computer chips

Meat consumption remains at a low level

ProVeg speaks of "intermediate plateau" and underlines call for a future nutrition plan

Critical raw materials from electrolysers back into the cycle

Researchers succeed in recycling functional materials for hydrogen production

Scientists identify synthetic chemicals in food as a major blind spot in public health