Merck Serono Launches Strategic Venture Capital Fund

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

hephaistos.bio obtains CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick

Swiss biotech start-up aims to bring tailor-made enzymes to resilient and sustainable chemical manufacturing

Pfizer and Innovent Biologics collaborate on 12 ADC and antibody programmes in global billion-dollar deal

The collaboration aims to advance innovative cancer medicines – Innovent is eligible for up to $9.85 billion in milestone payments

14 start-up teams in three years: further funding for healthcare accelerator in Regensburg

BioPark Jump is aimed at entrepreneurs in the healthcare and life sciences sectors

KyDo Therapeutics wins the 2026 MATWIN award for the best drug-based innovation project in oncology

A panel of oncology experts from nine pharmaceutical companies selected the biotech start-up for its covalent-allosteric small molecule inhibitors

Closure of the Strait of Hormuz exacerbates cost pressure in the chemical industry

"Chemistry is struggling, pharma is preparing for even greater challenges"

Asahi Kasei Life Science Acquires License for Novel Antibody-Drug Conjugate Technology from The Noguchi Institute

A Major Milestone for More Efficient and Safer Cancer Treatments

New alliance for research-based spin-offs: Renowned research institutions join forces

The new “Academic Spin-out Alliance” aims to facilitate more academic spin-offs in collaboration with the Vienna Business Agency

Cohere acquires biopharma AI specialist Reliant AI

Through this acquisition, Cohere aims to expand its AI capabilities for the global biopharma and healthcare sectors

Lilly is acquiring three vaccine companies for up to $3.8 billion

Three acquisitions targeting shingles, drug-resistant bacteria, and EBV

Million-euro investment: Westfalen doubles industrial gases capacities in Switzerland

Capacity in Eiken is almost doubled and secures gas supply for customers in the pharmaceutical, laboratory, medical, beverage, welding and cutting sectors

Berlin honors outstanding deep-tech companies

Deep Tech Award 2026 presented for the first time at the Deep Tech Momentum conference

NVision expands its quantum platform for drug development and secures $55 million

Abbott joins as a strategic investor

Innovation meets practice: POWTECH TECHNOPHARM takes centre stage for processing technology again in 2026

Non-viral DNA delivery platform Tethosome goes to Eli Lilly

Lilly acquires California-based startup Engage Biologics for up to $202 million

Sartorius opens new competence center for cell and gene therapy components in Freiburg, Germany

Total investment of more than 140 million euros

Atrandi Biosciences fills key roles to support global market expansion

Company accelerates global adoption of its capsule-based single-cell platform

Medix Biochemica invests $5m to expand its recombinant antigen capabilities

The phased program will expand the recombinant portfolio to 60+ validated products by 2030

Systec & Solutions launches Stormbit for paperless pharmaceutical production

The spin-off integrates existing business systems and makes production data available directly within the process

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

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.

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%

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

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

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

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

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

Dietary changes in older people can improve ‘biological age’

An omnivorous diet high in carbohydrates is the most reliable way to lower biological age

From the lab to the next generation of startups

IBT Lower Saxony funds research projects from Göttingen and Braunschweig with almost 2.4 million euros

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

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

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

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

The olive as a laboratory

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

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

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

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

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

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

Study paves the way for faster breeding

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

Sustainable chemistry: iron replaces precious metals in catalysis

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

Reversible glue technology goes electric

Water-based adhesive joins electronic components and releases them on demand

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

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

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

Job cuts at WACKER: Around 1,600 jobs in Germany affected

Global cost-cutting and efficiency program PACE aims to generate annual savings of over 300 million euros