Biotage AB Acquires Separtis Holding AG for 1.4M Euros (13M SEK) and Completes EU Distribution Consolidation

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

Tecan aims to bring unused lab data to life with NVIDIA

GPU-accelerated AI models are expected to drive the development of therapies

​​​3 questions to Susanne Grödl: AI and digital transformation shape analytica 2026

​New initiative: Empowering women in the laboratory world

PCE Instruments expands calibration laboratory at the Meschede-Freienohl site

New wind tunnel enables high-precision flow calibrations

What paralyzes Europe's laboratories and which levers have an impact

Growing willingness to innovate meets structural blockades, financing problems and stress

analytica 2026: five exhibition halls full of innovations

More than 1,100 exhibitors will be presenting their innovations

Virtual biology company secures $25m for virtual cell models

Turbine announces its first immunology partnership with a top 10 pharmaceutical company

The olive as a laboratory

A new analytical approach predicts the quality of olive oil before it is extracted

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

First ​“protein map” of neurons that initiate pain reveals new targets for drugs

Deep Visual Proteomics applied to nerve cells for the first time

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

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

Brain tumor spread in the living brain observed live for the first time

Three-photon microscopy reveals: immune cells of the brain actively influence how far the tumor advances

Shimadzu acquires German startup Plasmion and its SICRIT ionization technology

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

Largest study to date on the genetics of blood proteins highlights new disease mechanisms and drug repurposing opportunities

Machine learning combined with genetic analysis is expected to enable a more targeted use of active substances in precision medicine

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

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

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent

Protein inhibition can weaken leukemia cells

Researchers were able to trigger targeted defense reactions and cell death in cancer cells

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

UMass spun off HertZ Innovation launches smartphone-based bacterial test

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

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.

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

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

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

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

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

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

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

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

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

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%

Healthier plant-based diet associated with lower risk of Alzheimer’s, other dementias

Lower risk found even among those who adopted the diet at an older age

Sustainable chemistry: iron replaces precious metals in catalysis

Researchers develop iron(I) source for catalytic reactions - approach aims to make chemical processes more sustainable

One Molecule, Two Effects: A New Drug Concept to Treat Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

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

IBU-tec is setting up LFP production without Chinese technology

New plant to produce 15,000 tonnes of European battery material, with a significantly lower carbon footprint than Chinese processes

The ‘Ozempic Era’ could shift blame for obesity from individuals to the food industry

How weight-loss injections could reinforce the perception of ultra-processed foods as addictive substances

Start-up produces molecules that no fermentation process has previously been able to produce economically

Primogene raises €4.1 million to bring nature's complex bioactive molecules to the industrial scale

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

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

Red meat: Evolution’s double-edged sword

Why the food that made us human may be making us sick

Job cuts at WACKER: Around 1,600 jobs in Germany affected

Global cost-cutting and efficiency program PACE aims to generate annual savings of over 300 million euros

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

Green hydrogen becomes competitive

Start-up wants to make green hydrogen affordable with new MEA technology

Dietary changes in older people can improve ‘biological age’

An omnivorous diet high in carbohydrates is the most reliable way to lower biological age

14 million used batteries from electric vehicles by 2040: Who will master the circular economy?

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than seven-fold in last decade

From the lab to the next generation of startups

IBT Lower Saxony funds research projects from Göttingen and Braunschweig with almost 2.4 million euros