Cannovum Health welcomes new strategic majority investor

12-Aug-2025 - Cannovum Health GmbH celebrates a key milestone in its corporate development: Triple Crown Ventures becomes the new majority investor. With this step, the company gains a financially strong and strategic partner who firmly believes in Cannovum Health’s vision. In addition to increasing Cannovum ...

WACKER and start-up Gearbox Biosciences announce strategic collaboration

The partnership aims to co-develop technologies set to revolutionize manufacturing of plasmid DNA (pDNA)

11-Aug-2025 - Wacker Chemie AG and OÜ Gearbox Biosciences announced a strategic collaboration. Gearbox Biosciences, based in Estonia, are pioneers in the antibiotic-free microbial production of biologics. This partnership aims to co-develop technologies that will revolutionize the manufacturing of pDNA, the ...

Humify – superfood for the soil

Fighting climate change with green chemistry: The start-up Humify has developed a technology that can reactivate soil as a carbon sink

05-Aug-2025 - Hot and humid temperatures, no light, no air and then that intense odour: when the high-pressure cooker is fired up in the start-up Humify's laboratory, it is hard to imagine that under such conditions the resulting product – a kind of black liquid sludge – could help to influence climate change ...

€12M for LIfT BioSciences: Breakthrough in Cancer Therapy?

The grant from Ireland's Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund will support the first-in-human clinical trial of LIfT's IMAN therapy

05-Aug-2025 - LIfT BioSciences a rapidly emerging biotech and the global leader in neutrophil immunotherapies, announces a grant of €12 millionhas been awarded from Ireland’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) to advance its Immuno-Modulatory Alpha Neutrophils (IMANs), designed to overcome ...

Where science powers start-ups

New biotech hub BioLabs|TUM launched to foster start-ups

04-Aug-2025 - TUM Venture Labs, BioLabs and Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) launched BioLabs|TUM, a new biotechnology innovation hub in central Munich. The initiative aims to empower early-stage biotech start-ups by providing access to state-of-the-art lab infrastructure, expert mentoring, and global industry ...

PL BioScience Announces Major Site Expansion

New 1,200 m² facility in Aachen expands headquarters to support company growth and scale Human Platelet Lysate production

04-Aug-2025 - PL BioScience GmbH, a German life science company specializing in the production and development of Human Platelet Lysate (HPL) for cell expansion, announced a significant expansion of company headquarters and future manufacturing capabilities to meet the rapidly growing global demand for safe, ...

Sanofi to acquire biotech start-up Vicebio

Expanding respiratory vaccines pipeline

04-Aug-2025 - Sanofi announces it has entered into an agreement to acquire Vicebio Ltd, a privately held biotechnology company headquartered in London, UK. The acquisition brings an early-stage combination vaccine candidate for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV), both ...

New MRI technology makes cancer visible at an early stage

MRI signal amplified 24,000-fold: University start-up QuantView develops highly sensitive contrast agent

22-Jul-2025 - 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. Using a new type of contrast agent and a signal ...

Attracting bright and bold minds: new ideas for genome diagnostics and single molecule sensing

Four innovative life sciences ideas with particular economic potential receive awards

22-Jul-2025 - The Science2Start award ceremony took place as part of the BioRegio STERN Management GmbH summer reception on July 17, 2025. At the Tübingen-Reutlingen Technology Park, ideas from scientists were honored that, in the opinion of a jury of experts, have particular economic potential. First place ...

AmphiStar secures €12.5m EIC funding to bring its biosurfactants to market

Belgian start-up impresses with sustainable microbial biosurfactants, upcycled from a bio-based waste feedstock

21-Jul-2025 - Belgian biosurfactants developer AmphiStar has been awarded €12.5m in funding following the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) latest evaluation round. The award follows a highly competitive multi-stage application and interview process, which saw EIC consider nearly 1000 proposals from European ...