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rssStart-up Seamless Therapeutics will advance these innovative findings to therapeutic application
05-Feb-2024
A team of researchers at the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology Dresden, led by Prof. Frank Buchholz, has achieved a major breakthrough in genome editing technology. They've developed a cutting-edge method that combines the power of designer-recombinases with ...
Global Handwashing Day
17-Oct-2023
The 15th of October was Global Handwashing Day. Since the days of COVID-19, at the latest, everyone knows how important handwashing is for general hygiene. However, this day has not just existed since the pandemic, but already since 2008. Hand hygiene is not only an essential issue in healthcare ...
Recovery of non-metallic components for the first time?
12-Apr-2023
Chemist Prof. Jan J. Weigand and his team at TU Dresden are partnering in a joint project aimed at improving the ecological footprint of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The project led by the start-up company Elyte Innovations GmbH is named "SWELL – Recovery of Electrolyte Salts and Solvents", and ...
Research group and start-up reach milestone in fight against a virus that triggers a form of leukemia
11-Apr-2023
HTLV-1 triggers aggressive forms of leukemia or an incurable spinal cord disease that leads to paralysis: the virus is the often ignored but no less insidious sibling of the HIV virus that causes AIDS and also belongs to the family of retroviruses. A group of researchers from TU Dresden, the ...
Start-up aims to revolutionize treatment of severe diseases
23-Mar-2023
Seamless Therapeutics, a Dresden based start-up of the Technische Universität Dresden, announced a $12.5 million (€11.8M) seed financing round which will accelerate further development of its designer recombinases, a novel gene editing platform to transform the treatment of severe diseases. ...
The technology forms a "missing link" for a wide variety of new application areas
24-May-2022
In the framework of an EXIST Transfer of Research project, the HETEROMERGE team is developing a technology for automated material exchange for high-precision 3D printers toward market maturity, enabling multi-material printing even in the area of extremely small structure sizes of down to 100 ...
TU Dresden spin-off project PRUUVE launched
16-May-2022
With the EXIST research transfer PRUUVE (Phosphorescent Response Under UV Excitation) three physicists of the TU Dresden want to bring reusable UV sensor foils and labels to market maturity. With this idea, the team is currently also nominated for the Saxon Founders Award 2022 ...
EU-funded research project to detect pathologically altered body odours
26-Apr-2022
The project "Smart Electronic Olfaction for Body Odour Diagnostics" - SMELLODI for short - which is funded by the European Union (EU) with almost 3 million euros, has just started. Over the next three years, the participating partner institutes from Germany, Israel and Finland and Dresden-based ...
"SweepMe!" simplifies the use of measuring devices
28-Apr-2021
In order to control it, different libraries, protocols and command sets need to be followed. If you ever have to combine several devices from different manufacturers, you virtually have to take an additional course in computer science. This is because, in each case, a separate software is ...
TU Dresden's BIOTEC and its PharmAI spin-off analyse millions of active substances that could cure Covid-19
20-Jul-2020
The goal: Identify new drugs for Covid-19 therapy in the fastest possible way, conduct clinical tests and win the battle against the virus. The method: A large-scale research competition that screens billions of molecules in order to find those blocking interactions on SARS-CoV-2, identifying ...