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    30. Apr 2025

    Federal Ministry supports start-up project on pioneering ...

    A research team from the University of Cologne has secured 1.1 million euros for the PoLightFilters start-up project from the EXIST-FT funding programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). With the development ...

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    16. Apr 2025

    New Method for Detecting Nanoplastics in Body Fluids

    Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in organs, blood and other body fluids. In the FFG ...

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    14. Apr 2025

    Chemeleon to Collaborate with Mayo Clinic to Finalize Ul ...

    Chemeleon, a disruptive innovator in diagnostic technology, announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to complete development and clinical validation of their ultra-rapid, instrument-free assay poised to redefine point-of-care (POC) testing in ...

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    08. Apr 2025

    Nanotechnology: DNA origami boosts sensitivity of rapid ...

    An LMU team has developed a technology that can amplify the signals of biomarkers in conventional test strips more than a hundredfold. Now the researchers are commercializing the method. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is ...

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    07. Apr 2025

    Munich-based lab automation startup raised €2.77M

    UniteLabs, a startup specializing in lab automation for biotechnology, has raised €2.77 million in a pre-seed funding round led by NAP (formerly Cavalry Ventures). Investors PUSH, Acurio Ventures, OMA Business Angels, and LANA Ventures also ...

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    02. Apr 2025

    EXIST start-up grant for virtual reality laboratory training

    From blood analyses to cancer diagnostics - the examination and analysis of biological molecules, tissue, cells and genetic engineering, the development of vaccines and medical tests are carried out in wet laboratories. Thanks to the ...

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    27. Mar 2025

    mo:re launches lab platform to set a new standard in ani ...

    mo:re, a German Life Science startup, has raised €2.3 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of its lab platform for complex cell culture workflows. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) led the round, with participation from ...

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    25. Mar 2025

    Brainomix Completes £14M ($18M) Series C Round to Advanc ...

    Brainomix, a company pioneering AI-powered imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, announced the completion of a £14M ($18M) Series C investment round. The round is co-led by prominent healthtech investors that include existing investors, ...

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    20. Feb 2025

    “Multi Organ Model” - Animal-free alternative for pharma ...

    Organ-on-chip specialist Dynamic42 and ESQlabs, experts in digital life sciences solutions, have successfully developed a three-organ system, in close collaboration with  Consumer Health Division of Bayer, and the Placenta Lab at Jena University ...

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    17. Feb 2025

    Innovations for Health: When Molecular Spectroscopy Meet ...

    A team led by DESY scientist Tim Laarmann has successfully detected the vibrational fingerprints of glucose molecules in aqueous solution using a nonlinear optical method in the mid-infrared spectral range called ultra-broadband vibrational sum- ...

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    28. Jan 2025

    LIMAA Technologies and Labor Becker announce strategic p ...

    LIMAA Technologies, an innovative deep-tech startup in the field of medical technology solutions, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Labor Becker, one of Germany’s largest and owner-managed diagnostic laboratories. The ...

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    20. Jan 2025

    Better Basics Laborbedarf wins “Best of Industry Award 2024”

    Better Basics Laborbedarf, the developer and provider of modular laboratory organisation systems, has been honoured with the “Best of Industry Award 2024” for its “SmartIntegrate” product line in the Laboratory and Analytical Technology category ...

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    17. Dec 2024

    [Fe]-hydrogenase catalysis visualized using para-hydroge ...

    Microorganisms have long used hydrogen as an energy source. To do this, they rely on hydrogenases that contain metals such as nickel or iron in their catalytic center. In order to use these biocatalysts for hydrogen conversion, researchers ...

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    11. Dec 2024

    Concept Life Sciences and Accelero Biostructures partner ...

    UK-based Concept Life Sciences (Concept) and Accelero Biostructures (Accelero) in the US have formed an industry-leading partnership which will help pharma businesses worldwide speed up drug development by up to tenfold. The collaboration ...

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    10. Dec 2024

    Abselion raises £6.6 million led by M Ventures to bring ...

    Abselion, an innovator in automated analytical instrumentation that simplifies at-line protein quantification, has secured £6.6 million in Series A financing to bring its award-winning Amperia system to market. This cutting-edge benchtop ...

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    04. Dec 2024

    Capitainer participates in global AI project for advance ...

    Capitainer, a Swedish MedTech start-up specializing in self-sampling solutions, plays a key role in the international AIR project (Artificial Intelligence Radiology) aimed at improving the diagnostics and monitoring of lung diseases. Through ...

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    29. Nov 2024

    Belgian start-up BIO INX and Carl ROTH partner to expand ...

    BIO INX and Carl ROTH announced their new distribution agreement. This collaboration marks Carl ROTH’s first foray into the 3D bioprinting space, as the company continues its strategy of expanding into the rapidly growing 3D printing industry. Th ...

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    20. Nov 2024

    Better standard for laboratory analysis

    Greater efficiency, speed and precision in laboratory analyses as well as drastically reduced material consumption: with the SpecPlate, the spin-off PHABIOC from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is replacing up to four conventional ...

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    19. Nov 2024

    Without using animals: antibodies from algae for pregnan ...

    It is not every day that young start-ups from Germany launch an innovation with industry-changing potential onto the market. But this is exactly what Phaeosynt, a company founded out of the University of Hanover, is planning to do with its ...

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    05. Nov 2024

    Aignostics secures $34 million Series B to improve preci ...

    Aignostics, a global artificial intelligence (AI) company that turns complex multi-modal pathology data into transformative insights, announced that it has raised $34 million in Series B financing. This additional funding will be used to build ...

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    Miguel Barreto

    SimplicityBio SA

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    Günter M. Hefner

    MOIO GmbH

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    Frank Kensy

    b.fab GmbH

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