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04. Mar 2026

Virtual biology company secures $25m for virtual cell models

Turbine announced a $25 million Series B financing, an expansion of its virtual cell platform across industries and a new immunology-focused partnership with a top 10 pharma company. The Series B round is led by Interactive Venture Partners, ...

17. Feb 2026

HIV antibody opens up new approaches for vaccine develop ...

An international research team has identified a novel HIV antibody that targets the virus at a particularly vulnerable site and overcomes previous limitations of known antibodies. This study, led by Professor Dr Florian Klein, opens up new ...

26. Jan 2026

Cancilico Raises €2.5M to Scale AI-Powered Bone Marrow D ...

Cancilico, an AI diagnostics startup specializing in blood cancer, announced the successful closing of its €2.5 million Seed financing round. The investment was led by a strong consortium including High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), TGFS – ...

22. Jan 2026

Orbem secures €55.5 million Series B

Orbem, the Munich-based Deep tech company turning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) into a powerful, AI-powered tool to reveal hidden insights in food and biology, announced the successful closing of a €55.5 million Series B financing round. The ...

19. Jan 2026

Automation makes personalized medicine affordable

It is not uncommon for the innovative strength of a start-up to be thwarted as soon as an investor steps in and imposes overly complex processes. In the cooperation between the family-owned company Bürkert Fluid Control Systems and Green ...

07. Jan 2026

LMU spin-off obtains new funding to develop better rapid ...

Amplifold GmbH, a spin-off from LMU, has closed a seed financing round worth five million euros. The start-up is developing a technology which uses DNA origami nanostructures to significantly boost the sensitivity of commercially available ...

15. Dec 2025

AI-supported molecular cancer diagnosis for brain tumors

Researchers at the Hopp Children's Tumor Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Heidelberg Medical Faculty (MFHD) of Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) have taken a decisive step ...

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 ...

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