Tentamus acquires BioMeca and strengthens its life sciences portfolio

Acquisition strengthens presence in France

ZEISS Half-Year Figures: Solid Performance, Clear Future Course

Geopolitical uncertainty contributes to even greater market caution

PFAS detection in minutes rather than weeks: deep-tech start-up Grapheal secures €2.5 million in EU funding

The new EU Drinking Water Directive is driving demand for mobile PFAS analysis

Merck Appoints New Heads of Discovery Solutions and Strategy & BD for Life Science

Appointments strengthen the Life Science leadership team as the business advances its strategy and innovation agenda

Qnami acquired by Quantum Design

The University of Basel spin-off specializes in quantum sensing technologies built on diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

Cohere acquires biopharma AI specialist Reliant AI

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

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

Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 Billion to scale its AI drug design engine

Roche acquires PathAI to transform AI-driven diagnostics

This acquisition strengthens Roche’s position in digital pathology

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

Shimadzu acquires German startup Plasmion and its SICRIT ionization technology

The mass spectrometry technique enables high-sensitivity real-time analysis without complex sample pretreatment

Sartorius marks positive start to 2026: Considerable sales revenue growth and resilient profit margin

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent

Skoltech startup outpaces Nobel Prize-winning AI in virtual drug screening

Ligand Pro has made screening more than 30 times faster: AI model makes large-scale virtual screening viable for mid-sized labs

Merck Acquires JSR Chromatography Business

Broadens downstream purification portfolio with next-generation Protein A chromatography for scalable manufacturing

Growth in visitor numbers, full halls, clear future topics: analytica 2026 sets standards

AI and automation as innovation drivers for the industry

German analysis and laboratory industry cautiously optimistic about the current year

Turnover at 11.2 billion euros, export ratio around 54%

Automation and robotics drive growth in the laboratory

Skills shortage and efficiency pressure accelerate automation

Sartorius is counting on a biopharma boom by 2030

Biologics are expected to account for 57 per cent of pharmaceutical sales

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

New technology detects bacteria on surfaces in five minutes using a smartphone

UMass spun off HertZ Innovation launches smartphone-based bacterial test

Why doesn't coffee taste like caffeine?

Compounds created by the Maillard reaction during coffee bean roasting tame caffeine’s bitterness

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

Researchers solve a 50-year-old mystery: how acid removes water from proteins

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals for the first time which amino acids bind water and which ones release it when acidified

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

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

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

Pyrolysis oil instead of crude oil: Faster fluorine analysis reduces the risk for refineries

New method solves a key analytical challenge

PFAS detection in minutes rather than weeks: deep-tech start-up Grapheal secures €2.5 million in EU funding

The new EU Drinking Water Directive is driving demand for mobile PFAS analysis

Carbon dimer: precision measurement delivers new record value

New value deviates significantly from a much-noticed 2019 measurement, but agrees with older quantum chemical calculations

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

It may not just be what’s in ultra-processed foods, but how they’re made

New observational study suggests processing itself could partly explain links to diabetes, heart disease, and early death

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

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

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

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry

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

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

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

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

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

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%

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Metso introduces an advanced lithium carbonate process to support battery materials production

At the core of the process is soda pressure leaching, which selectively extracts lithium with fewer soluble impurities in one pass

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Nordzucker is revising its beet pricing model and investing €160 million in its factories

Two high-yield beet harvests in succession, high stocks in the EU sugar market and decreasing prices have impacted the earnings position

German government publishes technology roadmaps for six key technologies

Strengthening competitiveness, value creation and technological sovereignty

Mini-Brains from Patient Cells Point to Vitamin B3 as Treatment for Rare Childhood Disease

Lab-grown brain organoids revealed cholesterol build-up in astrocytes as the driver of DHDDS-related neurodegeneration.

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

Cooking plastics into oil

University of Amsterdam pilot plant brings advanced plastic recycling technology closer to industry

Insect larvae as a screening tool

How wax moth larvae can help reduce the need for mammalian testing in infection research

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

Healthy ultra-processed foods should be exempt from food policy restrictions

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

A scalable strategy for developing next-generation electrocatalysts for efficient and sustainable chemical production

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

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.

Making Chemistry Greener: The 2026 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Professor Marc Koper

His findings are crucial to advancing the use of renewable energy and the development of sustainable chemistry

Daily glass of 100% fruit juice could help support mental wellbeing

Simple diet change cuts depression scores in adults with low fruit intake

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually