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Global CDMO recognized for exceptional quality systems and regulatory track record; named finalist in Excellence in Client Service & Partnership and Manufacturing Operations categories SEATTLE – April 27, 2026 – AGC Biologics, your friendly CDMO expert, is the 2026 recipient of the Fierce Outsourcing Award for Leadership in Regulatory and Quality Compliance. The award recognizes the […]

KIMMDY software visualizes biological processes in motion – conceived and originally developed at HITS, refined and published at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz Within biological cells, molecules are constantly in motion. Investigating these motions, however, is still difficult, due to the fact that these processes occur on very small length and time […]

Brain metastases are among the most serious complications of advanced breast cancer. Researchers from Heidelberg University’s Faculty of Medicine, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) have conducted a detailed study of the body’s immune cells in the brain tissue surrounding these metastases. Their findings revealed that certain distribution patterns of […]

The Department of Infectious and Tropical Medicine at the Center for Infectious Diseases at Heidelberg University Hospital has been designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “WHO Collaborating Center for Novel Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases.” As part of this collaboration, the department supports the WHO in achieving one of its fundamental goals: the […]

Cambridge, UK, and Heidelberg, Germany, 13 April 2026: SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of laboratory automation and liquid handling solutions, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s Genomics Core Facility (EMBL GeneCore), today announced a collaboration to advance fully walkaway automated genomics workflows. As part of the collaboration, SPT Labtech’s firefly®+ […]

Ametefgene parvec (AB-1005) manufactured at Viralgen commercial manufacturing facility with next-generation process to deliver high-purity product with greater efficiency Berlin, Germany, and Durham, N.C., USA, April 20, 2026 – AskBio Inc. (AskBio), a gene therapy company wholly owned and independently operated as a subsidiary of Bayer AG, today announced that it has introduced its proprietary, commercially ready […]

Researchers from Heidelberg University’s Faculty of Medicine and the Technical University of Munich have investigated the genetic activity of “budding” head and neck carcinomas. In the “buds”—clusters of cells that detach from the tumor and are associated with a poor prognosis—they found a characteristic pattern of gene activity. This marker signature provides insights into the […]

BioMed X, a leading innovation hub for pharma, has officially launched its first research team at BioMed X France, marking the establishment of its presence in one of Europe’s fastest-growing life science ecosystems. The new team, Team ADB (AI-Empowered Design of Bispecific Antibodies), is based within the XSeed Labs incubator on the R&D campus of Servier in […]

MGnify Genomes offers new ways to explore microbial communities in soil, marine sediments, and the gut If you could shrink yourself to the size of a microbe, you would discover that every handful of soil and every bucket of seawater is akin to a bustling city filled with millions of microbes. Until recently, most of […]