Actelion to join the SMI (Swiss Market Index)

Commission launches new strategy to make Europe a global leader in life sciences by 2030

GenNext Technologies and Thermo Fisher Scientific Collaborate

Simplify Structural Biology for Faster Biotherapeutic Development

Siemens completes acquisition of Dotmatics

Acquisition expanding Siemens’ offerings into the life sciences industry

Merck Completes Acquisition of SpringWorks Therapeutics to Accelerate Sustainable Growth of its Healthcare Business

It represents one of the biggest M&A deals in the global biopharma sector so far in 2025

Neopharmed Gentili acquires the European ORLADEYO® Business from BioCryst Pharmaceuticals

Italian pharmaceutical company strengthens position in the field of rare diseases

TNO spin-off AIKON Health secures €1.2 million seed round to advance remote heart failure monitoring

Shifting care from hospital to home

ETH spin-offs sweep the board at Venture Awards

Merck Announces Neoclease as Winner of 2025 North American Advance Biotech Grant

Winner’s lead therapy targets Parkinson’s disease; platform addresses 6,000+ genetic disorders

Mosanna Therapeutics Launches with $80 Million to Advance Novel Nighttime Nasal Spray for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Biotech Veteran David Weber Appointed CEO to Drive Clinical Development

Berlin-based blood analysis innovator aescolab secures new capital

Start-up uses AI for personalized health analyses

Biotech Fluidics opens office in Germany

LUMITOS Celebrates Anniversary – From University Vision to Leading B2B Online Marketing Expert

Organic Growth Instead of Venture Capital: How LUMITOS Survived the Dot-com Crisis and Became Market Leader

Biontech wants to acquire Curevac

Acquisition will strengthen the research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of mRNA-based cancer immunotherapy candidates

Rigaku Completes New Building at Yamanashi Plant

Dramatic 2.7-fold increase in floor space to serve global demand

Nuclera and Cytiva Join Forces to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Sustainable Chemistry Changemakers: The Road Ahead

INNOVERDA: From ISC3 Start-up of the Month to Innovation Driver in the French Pharmaceutical Industry

ViGeneron Rebrands as VeonGen Therapeutics

VeonGen advances two proprietary, first-in-class gene therapies in the clinic

A therapeutic virus against cancer

Start-up Fusix Biotech explores new paths in immunotherapy

Laboratory Technology in Focus: Future Labs Live Basel Achieves Attendance Record

Visienco Wins Start-up Competition

Smart fertilization with biosensor strips

Start-up NutriSen gets the laboratory on the field

Hold the cream and sugar: black coffee linked to lower risk of death

Benefits diminished with additives

How fructose increases the risk of inflammation

Even short-term high fructose consumption influences the immune system

Tumor profiling: 43,000 data points against melanoma

Data-driven personalized treatments are about to become a reality

Yeast Produces Human DNase1 for the First Time

The human protein is currently produced only in mammalian cells with considerable effort and money

Possible anti-aging compounds found in blood bacteria

These findings could lead to new treatments for aging skin

Colorectal cancer screening via smartphone?

App-based early detection is as accurate as laboratory tests and could motivate more people to undergo screening

Frequent nightmares triple risk of early death and accelerate ageing

"Our sleeping brains cannot distinguish dreams from reality"

Microbes transform plastic waste into paracetamol

How traditional chemistry can work with engineering biology to create sustainable chemical-producing living microbial factories

Amphibian skin mucus as a potential weapon against multi-resistant bacteria and cancer

Researchers find antimicrobial peptides on axolotl skin that not only fight dangerous hospital germs but also tumour cells as an effective antibiotic alternative

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"

Chemical fingerprints reveal fast food consumption

Molecules in blood and urine could reveal how much ultra-processed food you eat

Researchers discover how caffeine could slow cellular ageing

Coffee might do more than just wake you up

Chemists produce hexa-nitrogen for the first time - the most energy-rich substance ever formed

"...a huge advance in nitrogen chemistry": future application as environmentally friendly energy storage conceivable

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

Ultra-thin lenses that make infrared light visible

Researchers have achieved this using a special metal-oxide lens material called lithium niobate and through nanoscale pattern, stamped into the material

PFAS: A novel path to breaking down “forever chemicals”

A new catalyst capable of cleaving strong carbon-fluorine bonds has been developed – potential use in pharmaceutical production

Pineapple juice is scarce and expensive due to a small harvest

Lab in a tube: Monitoring soil chemistry without disturbing it

Green hydrogen from Africa much more costly than previously assumed

Imports without guarantees are not competitive

Design2Market: New delivery box for Frittenwerk in just 6 weeks

How chemical bonds are formed: Observing energy flow in real time

Femtosecond spectroscopy makes chemical processes visible

New Prospects for Green Ammonia

Study provides a blueprint for load-flexible production plant – and lower costs

Replacing animal products with plant-based foods leads to weight loss in people with type 1 diabetes

Significant breakthrough in the chemistry of fluorinated compounds

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

Material substitution: artificial intelligence helps in the search for alternatives

Intelligent system searches scientific publications for substitutes for critical raw materials, e.g. in batteries

Eating more sweet food may not sway sweet preference

Randomized controlled trial shows that eating more — or less — sweet-tasting foods didn’t change how much people liked sweet flavors

Start-up wants to build the world's first stellarator-based fusion power plant in the 2030s

Proxima Fusion raises €130M Series A: “Fusion energy is entering a new era—moving from lab-based science to industrial-scale engineering”

Ready for summer with the PINK LEMONADE from waterdrop®

Brenntag opens first CO2-emission-free chemical distribution site

A global milestone in the industry

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

Renewable gas from hydrogen and CO₂

New sorption-enhanced methanation plant at Empa

Screw cap increasingly accepted for wine

A few years ago, this was unthinkable, as a recent study now shows

Europe’s largest e-Fuel production plant goes into operation

INERATEC opens ERA ONE

Compostable Single-Use Tableware

Mechanically stable, water-resistant polymer films thanks to bio-based coatings

Sevenfold boost in lifespan of anode-free all-solid-state batteries using MoS₂ thin films

Employing cost-effective MoS₂ thin films in place of expensive noble metals resolves issues of non-uniform lithium plating and interfacial instability in anode-free all-solid-state batteries

Antitrust proceedings against Delivery Hero and Glovo: EU Commission imposes heavy fines