Merck Announces Hiba Therapeutics as Winner of 2026 North American Advance Biotech Grant

Merck enters the market for genetic cardiomyopathies with a $50 million deal

Merck is partnering with Saturnus Bio and has secured an option to acquire the biotech company founded by Versant Ventures

POWTECH TECHNOPHARM 2026: Competitive advantages through cross-industry exchange

From smart sensor patches to wireless charging: Science4Life honors the year’s most innovative startup teams

First place in the Science4Life Venture Cup goes to SoreAlert, while Voltalyon wins the Science4Life Energy Award

Tentamus acquires BioMeca and strengthens its life sciences portfolio

Acquisition strengthens presence in France

Saxon Founder Award 2026: Oxaphil is ‘Newcomer of the Year’

Startup Develops Polyoxazolines as a Biocompatible Alternative to PEG for Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Products

Ovo Labs honoured with Max Planck Start-Up Prize of the Stifterverband

Help for women facing involuntary childlessness

ProChem Strengthens Its Hanau Location

ProChem Acquires Active Ingredient Production Facilities from Evonik at the Wolfgang Industrial Park

Double success for ETH entrepreneurs at the Venture Awards

Baxiva is focusing on sugar structures for broad-spectrum vaccines, whilst RegCheck uses AI to review regulatory documents

Start-ups in Europe: Significant Potential Remains Untapped

Study Shows Differences Between Start-ups in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Bavaria’s biotech industry continues to grow

Record funding and start-up boom despite a challenging environment

VEGA Opens New Plant in China

Production at the headquarters will continue and will be supplemented by the new plant

A radically new biological approach for cancer patients

CollimateHealth targets immune responses through microbeam radiation therapy – €6 million seed round oversubscribed

Ona Therapeutics raises $86.6 million for two ADCs targeting treatment-resistant cancers

The oversubscribed Series B financing round was co-led by new investors Columbus Venture Partners and Mérieux Equity Partners

Axplora consolidates UDCA manufacturing at Vizag site

Enzymatic green chemistry process moves from Italy to India

GSK acquires Nuvalent for $10.6 billion

The multi-product oncology deal includes three lung cancer treatments, two of which have multi-blockbuster potential

Ceva Animal Health acquires biotech spin-off from the University of León

The transaction includes the first and only European commercial vaccine against swine dysentery caused by Brachyspira H.

ZEISS Half-Year Figures: Solid Performance, Clear Future Course

Geopolitical uncertainty contributes to even greater market caution

German Biotech Industry: Funding Down Slightly – Still No IPOs in Sight in Germany

Series B funding for German biotech companies hits a historic low

IMU Biosciences closes oversubscribed $53M Series A for immune profiling platform

The UK biotech measures over 100 million immune data points from a single blood sample using multi-omic analysis and proprietary machine learning

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

It may not just be what’s in ultra-processed foods, but how they’re made

New observational study suggests processing itself could partly explain links to diabetes, heart disease, and early death

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

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

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%

Mini-Brains from Patient Cells Point to Vitamin B3 as Treatment for Rare Childhood Disease

Lab-grown brain organoids revealed cholesterol build-up in astrocytes as the driver of DHDDS-related neurodegeneration.

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

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

Insect larvae as a screening tool

How wax moth larvae can help reduce the need for mammalian testing in infection research

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

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

Daily glass of 100% fruit juice could help support mental wellbeing

Simple diet change cuts depression scores in adults with low fruit intake

The Bacterial Savings Account

Microbes Bank Nutrients in Extracellular Vesicles, then Cash Out

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

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

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

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

Why doesn't coffee taste like caffeine?

Compounds created by the Maillard reaction during coffee bean roasting tame caffeine’s bitterness

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

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

Nordzucker is revising its beet pricing model and investing €160 million in its factories

Two high-yield beet harvests in succession, high stocks in the EU sugar market and decreasing prices have impacted the earnings position

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

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

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

Metso introduces an advanced lithium carbonate process to support battery materials production

At the core of the process is soda pressure leaching, which selectively extracts lithium with fewer soluble impurities in one pass

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually

Pyrolysis oil instead of crude oil: Faster fluorine analysis reduces the risk for refineries

New method solves a key analytical challenge

Frequency combs: the key to the next generation of spectroscopy

A review article demonstrates how dual-comb interferometers can determine resolution solely through temporal coherence.

PFAS detection in minutes rather than weeks: deep-tech start-up Grapheal secures €2.5 million in EU funding

The new EU Drinking Water Directive is driving demand for mobile PFAS analysis

Cooking plastics into oil

University of Amsterdam pilot plant brings advanced plastic recycling technology closer to industry

Carbon dimer: precision measurement delivers new record value

New value deviates significantly from a much-noticed 2019 measurement, but agrees with older quantum chemical calculations

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

A scalable strategy for developing next-generation electrocatalysts for efficient and sustainable chemical production

Making Chemistry Greener: The 2026 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Professor Marc Koper

His findings are crucial to advancing the use of renewable energy and the development of sustainable chemistry