Festo is taking over the production systems and processes from Carville

Festo Expands its Portfolio with Multilayer Manifolds

26-Jun-2024 - Festo is expanding its portfolio to include multilayer manifolds made of plastic (bonded manifolds) in order to be able to offer manufacturers of medical and laboratory equipment solutions from a single source. To this end, Festo is taking over the production systems and processes for ...

Cyber Valley grants 500K to CELL’n’ROLL via 2023 Innovation Fellowship Program

Cyber Valley Community is advancing diagnostics for the future: Its goal is to create an innovative spin-off from the project after the funding term has ended

16-Apr-2024 - Pioneering cutting-edge diagnostic systems for the detection of complex diseases: Cyber Valley is pleased to announce it has awarded funding of 500K EUR to the CELL’n’ROLL team through the 2023 Cyber Valley Innovation Fellowship program, funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. CELL’n’ROLL aims to ...

An intestinal chip model takes research of fungal infections to a new level

Successful cooperation between science, clinic and start-up

25-Mar-2024 - The Jena-based biotech company Dynamic42 has developed an intestine-on-chip candidiasis model that allows for the quantification of the infection process. By combining microbiological and image-based analyses, the pathogen-host interactions can be analyzed much more precisely than is possible ...

SARS-CoV-2 detection in 30 minutes using gene scissors

Researchers introduce biosensor for the nucleic acid amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

28-Nov-2022 - CRISPR-Cas is versatile: Besides the controversial genetically modified organisms (GMOs), created through gene editing, various new scientific studies use different orthologues of the effector protein ‘Cas’ to detect nucleic acids such as DNA or RNA. In its most recent study, the research group ...

Technology transfer award for PCR rapid test device for infection diagnostics

In-vitro-Diagnostic company Spindiag, a University of Freiburg and Hahn-Schickard spin-off, has been recognized for its research-based development

19-Apr-2022 - Spindiag GmbH, together with the University of Freiburg and the Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V., was awarded the Technology Transfer Prize 2020 from the German Physical Society (DPG) on April 09, 2022 for the development of the PCR-based rapid test system Rhonda. The ...

3D tissue structures on the chip act as organs in miniature

New organ-on-chip system enables precise monitoring of 3D tumour tissue outside the body

23-Feb-2022 - A research team around Dr. Andreas Weltin, Dr. Jochen Kieninger and Johannes Dornhof from the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg has developed a system that, among other things, makes it possible to study the development of tumour cells outside the human ...

Startup revolutionizes diagnostics in dermatology

Dermagnostix closes seven-figure seed round

17-Dec-2021 - Dermagnostix revolutionizes diagnostics in dermatology with its fully auto-mated "lab-in-a-box" system, which allows the technically valid performance of complex molecular assays. "Modern molecular diagnostics is a prerequisite for implementing precision medicine in dermatology. It not only ...

Point-of-care diagnostics: New methods for detecting single molecules

Pathogen-specific detection: Even one single DNA molecule is enough

04-Nov-2021 - Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise worldwide. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM alongside the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have developed a process for rapidly detecting multidrug-resistant pathogens. The unique feature: Even one ...

Antibiotic levels measurable in breath for first time

Researchers are testing a biosensor for personalized dosing of medications

23-Sep-2021 - A team of engineers and biotechnologists at the University of Freiburg has for the first time shown in mammals that the concentration of antibiotics in the body can be determined using breath samples. The breath measurements also corresponded to the antibiotic concentrations in the blood. The ...

Bruker acquires Hamburg-based sensor start-up

27-Jun-2018 - Thanks to its innovative, patented sensor technologies, a portfolio company in the High-Tech Gründerfond (HTGF) has reached market maturity: USA’s Bruker Corporation has taken over Hamburg startup Sierra Sensors GmbH. Sierra Sensors develop and distribute biosensor-based analytical tools and ...