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03. Dec 2025

Smart sensor tag protects sensitive goods

Researchers from Empa, EPFL and CSEM have developed a green smart sensing tag that measures temperature and humidity in real time – and can also detect whether a temperature threshold has been exceeded. In future, this could be used to monitor ...

26. Nov 2025

World's smallest light-emitting diode produced

Researchers at ETH Zurich are producing organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) on the nanoscale - they are around a hundred times smaller than a human cell. This not only makes ultra-sharp screens and microscopes possible. The pixels are so small ...

10. Nov 2025

Setting the Course for AI-Assisted Radiology

The spin-off Plain Medical has emerged from the long-standing collaboration between the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS and the Radboud University Medical Center (UMC). Based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, the company began ...

07. Nov 2025

QIAGEN to acquire Parse Biosciences

QIAGEN announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to fully acquire Parse Biosciences, a provider of scalable, instrument-free solutions for single-cell research. The acquisition will significantly expand QIAGEN’s Sample technologies ...

04. Nov 2025

Lonza to expand bioscience testing offering with the acq ...

Lonza announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Redberry SAS (Redberry), an innovative company specializing in rapid microbiology testing solutions using solid-phase cytometry (SPC) technology. Redberry is a leader in SPC, providing ...

03. Nov 2025

TUM spin-off: Using artificial intelligence to track pro ...

Faster, better, and ideally tailored to each individual: the medicine of the future aims to deliver precise diagnoses and treatment plans. The interaction of proteins plays a key role in this. To understand this interplay, large, high-quality ...

30. Oct 2025

FIRST LABS - Laboratory start-up support for start-ups

With its concept of ready-to-use laboratories, the Rock Capital Group has recently made a decisive impact on the SKYGATE biotech and life science hub in the Munich Airport Business Park (MABP) in Hallbergmoos near Munich. In the past 12 months ...

28. Oct 2025

An ETH spin-off aims to bring gene scissors to the clinic

Thanks to CRISPR/Cas technology, researchers can precisely edit genetic material to treat hereditary diseases. To achieve this, they need to identify undesirable cuts in the genome at an early juncture. Pioneer Fellow Lilly van de Venn is ...

27. Oct 2025

giles introduces AI agent to accelerate healthcare and l ...

giles AI, a company making advanced research tools accessible to all and simplifying how scientists work with data, has announced the commercial launch of giles, its AI specialised research agent designed to support healthcare, clinical, and ...

22. Oct 2025

Developing drugs – with tens of thousands of miniscule d ...

A glass plate, a delicate tube and an oil bath are all that is required: thanks to a new method, researchers at ETH Zurich can produce tens of thousands of tiny droplets within minutes. This enables them to test enzymes and active ingredients ...

21. Oct 2025

"Accolade" for InnoZell: Animal-free quality control on ...

The startup InnoZell at the University of Konstanz is developing novel cell-based test systems that are able to detect microbial contaminants in drugs or medical products quickly, sensitively and without animal testing. The new method was ...

20. Oct 2025

Next-generation sequencing: NGS-based diagnostics for id ...

A method developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB enables bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic pathogens in sepsis patients to be identified much faster than before and with the highest precision ...

06. Oct 2025

StratifAI Raises €12.5M for Clinical Validation of AI Bi ...

StratifAI, the AI biomarker company for precision oncology, has secured €12.5 million in an oversubscribed funding round. The funding will accelerate the clinical validation of its multimodal AI biomarker discovery platform, Polaris™. The round ...

06. Oct 2025

Simply taste your way to flu infection

Detect influenza viruses quickly and easily with chewing gum or a lollipop: researchers from Würzburg, Braunschweig and Cologne demonstrate with a new diagnostic tool how this works. Influenza is much more than just a nasty cold – it is one of ...

15. Sep 2025

Promega and Watchmaker Genomics Announce Strategic Partn ...

Promega Corporation has entered a strategic partnership with Watchmaker Genomics to license a novel engineered reverse transcriptase. Designed for enhanced accuracy and sensitivity in RNA analysis, the enzyme will enhance Promega capabilities to ...

09. Sep 2025

French start-up and Fraunhofer researchers aim to revolu ...

People being monitored for chronic kidney disease or heart failure often have high levels of potassium in their blood (hyperkalemia) due to impaired renal potassium excretion caused by kidney damage or by medications. But such medications ...

22. Jul 2025

New MRI technology makes cancer visible at an early stage

Detecting cancer cells before they spread - this is what the start-up QuantView from Kiel is working on. The spin-off from Kiel University (CAU) has developed a method with which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used much more sensitively ...

07. Jul 2025

Making fibrosis visible – before it’s too late

Giuseppe Antoniazzi is developing a diagnostic toolkit that gives early warning of fibrotic diseases. In doing so, this Pioneer Fellow wishes to contribute to the early detection of tissue scarring, which is usually noticed too late and can ...

23. Jun 2025

Berlin-based blood analysis innovator aescolab secures n ...

aescolab, a Berlin-based healthtech innovator that uses AI to deliver personalized health analysis and lifestyle recommendations based on blood values, has closed a new round of funding to accelerate its growth. The investment will help the ...

12. Jun 2025

Refeyn Announces Leadership Transition

Refeyn announced that Jonathan Flint is stepping down as Chairman of the Board of Directors after completing two successful three-year terms. Flint’s tenure has been marked by significant growth and innovation, and the company extends its ...

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