Baseclick and Tebubio Join Forces to Revolutionize Nucleic Acid Bioconjugation and labeling

25-Mar-2024 - This partnership represents a significant milestone in advancing the field of nucleic acid bioconjugation and labeling, providing researchers with unprecedented access to cutting-edge tools and solutions. With baseclick's expertise in click chemistry and Tebubio's extensive portfolio of ...

Merck invests more than € 300 Million in new life science production site in South Korea

Site to supply products to customers for development and production of biologics

22-Mar-2024 - Merck invests more than € 300 million into a new Bioprocessing Production Center in Daejeon, South Korea. The new site is the largest investment by Merck's Life Science business sector in Asia-Pacific to date and demonstrates the company’s commitment to expanding its capacities in the ...

BASF to build new fermentation plant for crop protection products in Ludwigshafen

Strengthening the portfolio of biological and biotechnology-based crop protection products

21-Mar-2024 - BASF invests a high double-digit million euro amount in a new fermentation plant for biological and biotechnology-based crop protection products at its Ludwigshafen site. The plant will manufacture products that bring value to farmers including biological fungicides and biological seed treatment. ...

Sustainable plastics from agricultural waste

The production of these materials is now being scaled up by the EPFL spin-off, Bloom Biorenewables, in an effort to get them into the market

19-Mar-2024 - In our rapidly industrialized world, the quest for sustainable materials has never been more urgent. Plastics, ubiquitous in daily life, pose significant environmental challenges, primarily due to their fossil fuel origins and problematic disposal. Now, a study led by Jeremy Luterbacher's team at ...

analytica supporting program: Fit for the laboratory world of tomorrow

More than 1,050 exhibitors will be showing new instruments and applications with which the laboratory industry is meeting today's challenges

14-Mar-2024 - Whether in the battle against climate change, in developing vaccines and medicines, or controlling our food, modern analysis methods are indispensable. Over 1,050 exhibitors at analytica in Munich from April 9 to 12 will be showcasing the new instruments and applications the laboratory industry ...

Colossal scientists achieve global first: Revolutionary iPSC milestone reached in Woolly Mammoth project

“This is a momentous step, with numerous applications”

11-Mar-2024 - Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company, announces that their Woolly Mammoth team has achieved a global-first iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cells) breakthrough. This milestone advancement was one of the primary early goals of the mammoth project, and supports the ...

Fiscal 2023: Proven Resilience During Transitional Year

Return to organic growth expected in 2024

07-Mar-2024 - Merck reported financial results for 2023 in line with its guidance published in August despite a challenging market environment, thus demonstrating the robustness of its business model. The strong development of the Healthcare business sector partly compensated for the market-related declines in ...

Analytics connects: exchange across disciplines

Research meets application at the analytica conference 2024

07-Mar-2024 - From April 9th ​​to 12th, analytica, the world's leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analytics and biotechnology, will take place for the 29th time at the Munich exhibition center. It will be accompanied by the analytica conference from April 9th ​​to 11th. In numerous sessions, ...

Feathers replace petroleum

Adhesives from feathers: The project addresses a billion-dollar market

06-Mar-2024 - Adhesives are almost always based on fossil raw materials such as petroleum. Researchers at Fraunhofer have recently developed a process that allows to utilize keratin for this purpose. This highly versatile protein compound can be found, for instance, in chicken feathers. Not only can it be used ...

Merck Opens new € 20 Million Distribution Center in Brazil

Employees from Cotia will move to Cajamar distribution center

29-Feb-2024 - Merck will open a new, € 20 million distribution center in Cajamar, São Paulo, Brazil to better serve its Life Science customers in the region. The new space, which will be operational in late February, has an area of 13,000 square meters – twice as large as the former location in ...