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 ...

MIP Discovery closes £7M Series A financing to drive commercialization in cell and gene therapy space

“MIP Discovery’s synthetic affinity reagents hold huge potential to overcome bottlenecks in cell and gene therapy development and production”

28-Feb-2024 - MIP Discovery, an innovative developer of non-biological affinity reagents designed to accelerate the development and production of cell and gene therapies, announced it has closed a £7 million GBP (~$9 million USD) Series A financing round, led by Mercia Ventures. Existing investor Calculus ...

Insamo launches with $12m funding to develop best-in-class membrane-permeable macrocyclic peptides

"Turn-key" solution from Insamo to revolutionise drug discovery

26-Feb-2024 - Insamo, a biotechnology company pioneering the discovery of membrane-permeable and orally available cyclic-peptides, announced $12 million in seed capital from Playground Global, venBio, and MRL Ventures Fund (MRLV). MRLV is a corporate venture arm of Merck & Co., Inc which invests in ...

Powering Nitrogenases: New ways for sustainable fertiliser production

New targets for improving biocatalysts

26-Feb-2024 - Nitrogenases are considered promising candidates for the sustainable enzymatic production of ammonia and carbon compounds. One bottleneck in this complex process, the supply of electrons to the enzymes, has remained a mystery until now. Now a team at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial ...

Researchers succeeded in biomanufacturing using chemically synthesized sugar for the first time in the world

Biomanufacturing using chemically synthesized sugars enables sustainable supply of sugar without competing with food

21-Feb-2024 - Biomanufacturing using biomass sugars such as corn obtained from agriculture is attracting attention as an environmentally friendly technology. However, the supply of such conventional biomass sugars is limited in relation to the huge demand for the production of fuels and chemical products, ...

World’s First Pilot Plant for Bio-Based Aniline

Use of biotechnology: New process for petroleum-free raw material on its way to industrial maturity

15-Feb-2024 - Covestro is moving forward with the implementation of a unique process for producing the important chemical aniline entirely based on plant biomass instead of petroleum for the first time. At its Leverkusen site, the plastics manufacturer has now put a special pilot plant into operation for this ...

BioNTech and Autolus Announce Strategic CAR-T Cell Therapy Collaboration to Advance Pipeline and Expand Late-Stage Programs

14-Feb-2024 - BioNTech SE and Autolus Therapeutics plc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation programmed T cell therapies, announced a strategic collaboration aimed at advancing both companies’ autologous CAR-T programs towards commercialization, pending regulatory ...

Scientists develop artificial ‘worm gut’ to break down plastics

Hopes for a nature-inspired way to tackle global plastic pollution

13-Feb-2024 - By feeding worms with plastics and cultivating microbes found in their guts, researchers from NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) have demonstrated a new method to accelerate plastic ...