Crucell and DSM Announce PER.C6® Licensing Agreement with Chiron

Merck expands life science portfolio with $11.3 billion Bio-Techne deal

Bio-Techne to bring portfolio with industry-leading multi-omics offering, analytical technologies and integrated workflow solutions across the scientific journey

eXoZymes awarded $2 million NIH grant to advance cannabinoid analogues for drug discovery

Total non-dilutive funding awarded to eXoZymes is now almost $20 million

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

With TROIKA, the Boston-based start-up is developing a programmable T-cell engager platform to combat solid tumours

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

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

POWTECH TECHNOPHARM 2026: Competitive advantages through cross-industry exchange

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

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

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.

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%

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

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

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

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

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

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

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

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

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"

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

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

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

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

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

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

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

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

Cooking plastics into oil

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

Carbon nanotubes make the electronic nose suitable for everyday use for the first time

The smart fridge of the future: E-nose warns of off chicken and nut allergens

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

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

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

Invisible battle between bacteria determines the flavour and safety of salami

Research could lead to safer products, more consistent quality, and potentially new flavours and textures

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

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

Faster and more energy-efficient: Catalysts boost hydrogen-based steel production

Nickel oxides accelerate hydrogen-based steel production by a factor of two

MIT researchers develop a low-cost technique to get lithium out of rocks

MIT spinout Rock Zero aims to make U.S. lithium production less dependent on China