Novozymes: Acquisition of enzyme activities from Biocon completed

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

Plant-based sugars become raw materials for plastics: UPM secures Avantium patents

UPM is the first company to commence industrial production of chemicals derived from lignocellulosic biomass

Infex Therapeutics raises £4.3 million to advance drug-resistant infection pipeline

Jon Moulton is leading the funding round

Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 Billion to scale its AI drug design engine

Industrial breakthrough for next generation natural polymers

German start-up opens first industrial production facility for nature-based material innovation

Vetter invests almost 500 million euros in new production site

Groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of the first construction phase

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

New CEO Kai Beckmann announces adaptation to the operating model

Roche acquires PathAI to transform AI-driven diagnostics

This acquisition strengthens Roche’s position in digital pathology

Bayer reports solid start to the year and confirms currency-adjusted Group guidance for 2026

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

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

Novartis rebuilds in Germany: Wehr closes, Halle grows

While 220 jobs are lost in Wehr, Novartis invests 35 million euros in Halle

Laboratory software provider realigns itself

GUS LAB becomes LIVO Technologies

Chronic diseases cost $8 trillion annually: A Munich-based startup aims to change that

dehaze raises €3.2 million to build the first foundational AI model for chronic disease detection

Chiesi Group to acquire KalVista Pharmaceuticals, expanding its global rare disease portfolio

The Transaction is Chiesi’s most substantial acquisition to date in value terms

Start-up produces molecules that no fermentation process has previously been able to produce economically

Primogene raises €4.1 million to bring nature's complex bioactive molecules to the industrial scale

SynuCa Therapeutics wins BioVaria Award for Parkinson’s therapy

Panosome impressed with an antibody platform for targets where conventional methods have long failed

mbiomics reaches 30 million euros with third closing of Series A round

TechBio start-up develops oral microbiome therapeutics from living bacterial strains

Kai Beckmann to become Merck's new CEO on May 1, 2026

At the 31st Annual General Meeting, Belén Garijo symbolically handed over leadership of the DAX company to her successor after five years

Uhlmann Pac-Systeme opens branch office in Argentina

Company responds to regionalization of supply chains and strengthens presence in the Latin American pharmaceutical market

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.

No need to pull all-nighters here: this laboratory plans its own experiments

KIWI Biolab at TU Berlin combines robots, analysis devices and AI - and uses them to carry out even complex experiments fully automatically

More immune protection, less dominance: A new phase in the corona-development?

For the first time, no new variant is replacing the dominant strains – BA.3.2 mainly infects children

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

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

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

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%

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

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

Parents' consumption of artificial sweeteners could affect their children's metabolism

Sucralose and stevia alter gene expression even in the second generation

Biotech start-up TIBEAY secures 35 million euros for first therapy for severe traumatic brain injury

Ronopterin to pharmacologically slow down neurological sequelae after traumatic brain injury for the first time

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

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

The olive as a laboratory

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

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

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

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

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

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

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

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

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

Study paves the way for faster breeding

IBU-tec is setting up LFP production without Chinese technology

New plant to produce 15,000 tonnes of European battery material, with a significantly lower carbon footprint than Chinese processes

Hydroponics without flying blind: New monitoring system tracks nutrient solutions in real time

Is this the future of crop cultivation?

From lab to industry: 3D printing accelerates the future of lithium batteries

A major review highlights the potential, the pitfalls, and different perspectives of 3D printing's role in manufacturing lithium batteries

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

Sustainable chemistry: iron replaces precious metals in catalysis

Researchers develop iron(I) source for catalytic reactions - approach aims to make chemical processes more sustainable

Vacuum pump without motor: Thin films - the stuff new pumps are made of

Research team presents vacuum pump prototype with double film drive - spin-off mateligent brings the technology to industry

Are critical raw materials for EVs less critical than previously thought?

A 15-year analysis identifies four innovation leaps that repeatedly reshaped which raw materials the market relies on