Start-ups for environmentally friendly batteries and nanoparticles for cancer therapy in planning

27-Mar-2023

Two young Empa scientists each receive an Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship to develop innovative products based on their research. Abdessalem Aribia is developing environmentally friendly and safe batteries, while Subas Scheibler is working on nanoparticles for cancer therapy. The Empa Entrepreneur ...

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A revolution in drug discovery thanks to a new chat assistant?

16-Mar-2023

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery company, has integrated advanced AI chat functionality based on recent advances in large language models into its PandaOmics platform. The new feature, “ChatPandaGPT,” enables researchers to have ...

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15-Mar-2023

Chromologics, the Danish biotech company specializing in production of innovative natural food colors, today announced the successful closure of an extended seed round. The company raised an additional EUR 7.1 million in equity from its existing investors plus two new investors. "We are thrilled ...

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Viennese start-up develops novel, precise anti-cancer drugs

06-Mar-2023

RIANA Therapeutics, a promising pharmaceutical start-up recently spun out of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Vetmeduni), aims to develop novel therapeutics for cancer patients based in part on scientific findings from Vetmeduni’s Moriggl research group (Moriggl Lab). The ...

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The research on the antibacterial materials is being conducted in collaboration with the spin-off company Amferia

31-Jan-2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks antibiotic resistance as one of the top ten threats to global health. There is therefore a great need for new solutions to tackle resistant bacteria and reduce the use of antibiotics. A group of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden ...

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audEERING launches online platform for AI-based analysis of disease symptoms based on voice

31-Jan-2023

The voice AI company audEERING has developed AI SoundLab, a DSGVO-compliant online platform that for the first time enables the determination of health conditions based on parameters of the human voice. Companies and institutions are thus able to explore voice data as biomarkers for disease ...

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18-Jan-2023

Optometrists, ophthalmologists and their patients will benefit from new, high-tech tools to detect glaucoma at its earliest stages thanks to a startup that will commercialize smart contact lenses developed at Purdue University. BVS Sight Inc. is the first company created through a partnership ...

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12-Jan-2023

Bayer AG and Google Cloud announced a collaboration to drive early drug discovery that will apply Google Cloud’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are custom-developed accelerators designed to run cutting-edge machine learning models and computationally-intensive workloads, to help accelerate ...

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09-Jan-2023

CureVac N.V. announced positive preliminary data from ongoing Phase 1 clinical programs in COVID-19 and seasonal flu, assessing both modified and unmodified mRNA technology. The tested vaccine candidates are being developed in collaboration with GSK. The preliminary results generated by this ...

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Goodbye to crude oil-based dyes: Biotech start-up and scientists revolutionize paint production

21-Dec-2022

The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude oil, making them far from environmentally innocent. University of Copenhagen researchers have teamed up with Danish biotech start-up Octarine Bio to create new types of sustainable ...

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