News for analytics, lab technology, diagnostics, biotechnology

Seeing cancer’s spread through a computational window

Computational model allows researchers to simulate cellular-scale interactions across unprecedented distances in the human vasculature

Sturgeon products such as caviar sold in Europe are often illegal - or not even genuine

Gene and isotope analyses show that regulations are actively being broken

X-rays reveal how glasses lose their stability

PETRA III experiment shows how atoms in glass behave as weaknesses appear

Luxembourg discovery advances Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

Scientists uncover paradigm-shifting immune cell markers for early Parkinson's detection with particular relevance to women

‘Strange metal’ is strangely quiet in noise experiment

Novel machine learning model for molecular simulation under external field

Two conductors of a chemical reaction

Watching the reaction live

Scientists use quantum biology, AI to sharpen genome editing tool

"This study represents an exciting advancement toward, understanding how we can avoid making costly ‘typos’ in an organism’s genetic code"

Microplastics in soil: Tomography with neutrons and X-rays shows where particles lay in soil

Cell-free quest for new antibiotics

A new method combines synthetic biology with artificial intelligence

How stem cells and immune cells communicate

Lisec Artz Award for Simon Haas: Groundbreaking discovery of an unknown protective mechanism against blood cancer from stem cells

Fatty acid factory filmed at work

High-resolution images provide new insights into cellular fatty acid production: Potential for medicine and biotechnology

Merck Expands Newest Biologics Testing Center in Shanghai

Further develops its biosafety testing laboratories to meet local demand

Spacetek Technology announces the successful closing of its Seed Financing Round

Time-of-flight mass spectrometers (TOF-MS) inspired by space technology

Start-up Better Basics Laborbedarf Wins First Place at the "Wiley Analytical Science Award 2024"

SmartRack® wins in the Separation, Laboratory Automation & Equipment Category

Verici DX reaches a global licensing and commercialisation agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific

Agreement grants rights to further develop an assay for pre-transplant prognostic testing

analytica 2024: Food analysis for sustainable nutrition

From PFAS to microplastics: focus on new harmful substances

HunterLab Spreads Its Vibrant Colors to Europe: Introducing 'HunterLab Europe'

Steering HunterLab Europe is none other than the Christian Jansen, who literally grew up in the color spectrophotometry world

HeartBeat.bio raises € 4.5 million in Pre-Series A financing

New funds to drive development of organoid screening platform for cardiac drug discovery

Huber Kältemaschinenbau receives highest award at the "Großer Preis des Mittelstandes" (Grand Prix of Medium-Sized Businesses)

Fraunhofer IPA transfers rights to use laboratory robot KEVIN United Robotics Group

KEVIN can be flexibly and intuitively integrated into laboratory infrastructures and automates processes

Laboratory equipment manufacturer KNAUER honored as top employer

analytica 2024 presents the laboratory world of tomorrow

Focus topics are digitization and sustainability

SRI spins off AI-powered drug discovery platform Synfini, Inc.

Synfini to commercialize and scale automated compound testing for rapid drug production

Plastic-eating bacteria turn waste into useful starting materials for other products

Microbial Upcycling of Waste PET

Bowel cancer: aspirin activates protective genes

Researchers have identified a signaling pathway by which aspirin can inhibit colorectal cancer.

Eating grasshoppers and mealworms - yuck

European research project investigated the acceptance of insects as food in three countries

New designs for solid-state electrolytes may soon revolutionize the battery industry

Scientists achieve monumental improvements in lithium-metal-chloride solid-state electrolytes

New drug delivery system could reduce daily diabetes shots to just three a year

Dietary management drugs have transformed Type 2 diabetes care, but daily injection routines are challenging for some patients

Mushrooms, Brussels sprouts & cilantro: how flavor preferences are created

Microbes could help reduce the need for chemical fertilizers

A coating protects nitrogen-fixing bacteria: Start-up to commercialise coated bacteria for large-scale use in regenerative agriculture

Excessive fluid consumption: habit or hormonal disorder?

Which test provides a reliable diagnosis?

Lawsuit over beer label: Must a brewer brew himself?

Dow and Evonik announce startup of hydrogen peroxide to propylene glycol (HPPG) pilot plant

Innovative technology offer flexibility, lower costs, and a smaller environmental footprint

The weight of pollution: exposure linked to obesity

Chronic exposure to environmental pollutants found to increase risk of cardiovascular disease

Fungi used in food production could lead to new probiotics

This is a battery

Two colored liquids bubbling through tubes: Is this what the battery of the future looks like?

Textbook knowledge turned on its head: 3-in-1 microorganism discovered

Newly multifunctional bacterial species

Naked Clams: The New Superfood Sensation Emerging from the Depths

Researchers found Naked Clams contain almost twice the amount of Vitamin B12 as blue mussels and have developed an efficient way to farm them

Converting PFAS “forever chemicals” into valuable compounds

Scientists develop a new method to incorporate harmful perfluoroalkenes into N-heterocyclic carbene ligands

Alzheimer’s Drug PRI-002 Receives EMA Approval for Phase II Trial

Ritter Sport Vegan with new variety Crispy Cookie

If you like crunch, you'll love this novelty: Starting in January, Ritter Sport is launching Crispy Cookie, a new vegan variety.

Inauguration of the world’s first pilot plant for the cost-efficient production of green methanol

Start-up C1 Green Chemicals AG and research partners develop fundamentally new production process

Long COVID makes thinking slower

Objective evidence for mental fatigue

Italy bans the production and sale of lab-grown meat

Graphene's proton permeability: A switch for future energy technologies

This discovery could lead to the development of more efficient hydrogen fuel cells and solar water-splitting devices

What's that smell? New gut microbe produces smelly toxic gas but protects against pathogens

Taurine-degrading bacteria influence intestinal microbiome

Pushers, overcrowded trains and phone zombies

Sprite presents the world's first vending machine that responds to the things that bother Generation Z the most

Electromobility: New early warning system to provide better protection against burning lithium-ion batteries

New system measures and analyzes impedance

Microbe of the Year 2023: Bacillus subtilis – for health and technology

Already, Bacillus subtilis is indispensable in many industries, and many more innovations are expected

After nationalization: Carlsberg manager arrested in Russia

Lithium-ion batteries are no longer the gold standard in battery tech

On the way to safer and more powerful energy sources

Resident T cells detected in lymph nodes

From the trough to the plate - digitally calculated

Computer program "ConTrans" estimates how much of an undesirable substance is transferred from animal feed to food