Delivery Hero grows revenue by 77% for the full year 2018

NanoStruct secures €2.6 million for faster bacterial analysis in food

Nanostructured sensor chips combined with AI are set to replace laboratory tests that take several days

Berief Food switches to Theo Müller

Sale enables location stability and acceleration of international expansion

Food processing and packaging machinery industry in good shape

Swiss-led Initiative for Sustainable, Fair-Trade, Organic Coconut Oil

Nutriswiss, Coop and HALBA guarantee fixed purchase volumes and stable incomes for over 200 smallholders

Germany's largest dairy cooperative is entering the lactoferrin market

New strategic business segment strengthens innovative capacity and the Altentreptow site

Everstone Capital acquires Qlar Group from Blackstone

Everstone Capital to back Qlar’s roadmap through continued investment in engineering and innovation

FrieslandCampina is investing over €90 million in high-value whey proteins

Three Dutch sites are being modernised

Laboratory software provider realigns itself

GUS LAB becomes LIVO Technologies

Vion Agrees on Sale of Buchloe Production Site to ABP

Start-up produces molecules that no fermentation process has previously been able to produce economically

Primogene raises €4.1 million to bring nature's complex bioactive molecules to the industrial scale

Un­ternehmens­gruppe Theo Müller is expanding its brand portfolio with Greek-style yoghurts

Hochwald brands Elinas and Lünebest are moving to Müller

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

Germans eat almost three kilos more cheese on average than the Swiss

Gouda remains in 1st place

Frozen food continues to grow

Total sales increase by 2.5 percent Per capita consumption rises to 51.6 kilograms

Hero acquires UK snacking firm ‘The Gut Stuff’

The founders, twins Lisa and Alana Macfarlane, will remain with the company and continue to lead the brand

More biotech expertise for lactose-free milk: Kerry opens expanded manufacturing hub in Ireland

The Carrigaline facility combines enzyme strain development from Leipzig with large-scale lactase production

Eat less meat! Otto Gourmet founder in favor of regenerative agriculture

Why animal welfare and carbon footprint are not thought through far enough

Lichtenauer Mineralquellen with significant sales growth in the 2025 financial year

Mineral water and returnable glass ensure strong growth

Fibre from beer production: DKSH and Yeastup launch partnership in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Yeastup uses a patented process to produce functional ingredients for the food industry from brewer’s yeast

Starch Instead of Plastic: Colombian Startup Reinventing Fruit Packaging

Natupla: From ISC3 start-up of the month to a pioneer in starch-based, biodegradable plastics

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

Scientists are fixing the big fat problem with vegan cheese

Oleogelation transforms liquid vegetable oils into spreadable fats and is intended to replace coconut and palm oil

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

Reduce, remove and modify: Research team "cuts" wheat chromosomes to size

Study paves the way for faster breeding

Healthier plant-based diet associated with lower risk of Alzheimer’s, other dementias

Lower risk found even among those who adopted the diet at an older age

Hydroponics without flying blind: New monitoring system tracks nutrient solutions in real time

Is this the future of crop cultivation?

Parents' consumption of artificial sweeteners could affect their children's metabolism

Sucralose and stevia alter gene expression even in the second generation

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

Waterland enters into strategic partnership with Condio and establishes a platform for functional food ingredients

The company develops stabiliser systems for high-protein, reduced-sugar and plant-based foods.

Ever heard of the barunut?

gebana brings the baruna nut to Europe as a novel food

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

No need to pull all-nighters here: this laboratory plans its own experiments

KIWI Biolab at TU Berlin combines robots, analysis devices and AI - and uses them to carry out even complex experiments fully automatically

Skoltech startup outpaces Nobel Prize-winning AI in virtual drug screening

Ligand Pro has made screening more than 30 times faster: AI model makes large-scale virtual screening viable for mid-sized labs

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

First ​“protein map” of neurons that initiate pain reveals new targets for drugs

Deep Visual Proteomics applied to nerve cells for the first time

Vacuum pump without motor: Thin films - the stuff new pumps are made of

Research team presents vacuum pump prototype with double film drive - spin-off mateligent brings the technology to industry

More immune protection, less dominance: A new phase in the corona-development?

For the first time, no new variant is replacing the dominant strains – BA.3.2 mainly infects children

Brain tumor spread in the living brain observed live for the first time

Three-photon microscopy reveals: immune cells of the brain actively influence how far the tumor advances

IBU-tec is setting up LFP production without Chinese technology

New plant to produce 15,000 tonnes of European battery material, with a significantly lower carbon footprint than Chinese processes

Biotech start-up TIBEAY secures 35 million euros for first therapy for severe traumatic brain injury

Ronopterin to pharmacologically slow down neurological sequelae after traumatic brain injury for the first time

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

New process developed to produce universal blood plasma for all blood groups

Revolution in emergency medicine

Sartorius marks positive start to 2026: Considerable sales revenue growth and resilient profit margin

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent

Scientists discover new way metals bind oxygen, possibly starting ‘new chapter’ in chemistry

Neodymium binds dioxygen via pi interactions — a first for lanthanide chemistry

AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery to accelerate AI-powered research in life sciences

A new agentic AI application aims to speed up drug development, helping bring new medical treatments to patients faster

Merck Acquires JSR Chromatography Business

Broadens downstream purification portfolio with next-generation Protein A chromatography for scalable manufacturing

From lab to industry: 3D printing accelerates the future of lithium batteries

A major review highlights the potential, the pitfalls, and different perspectives of 3D printing's role in manufacturing lithium batteries

A fundamentally new therapeutic approach to cystic fibrosis: Nanobody repairs cellular defect

FMP and Charité develop the first functional cell-permeable antibody

Development of a rapid test for diagnosing hard-to-treat VRE Bacteria

German chemical industry with decline in sales and employment

Exports of Chinese chemical producers to Europe rise sharply - increasing competition for German companies

New AI system extracts numerical data from academic texts, freeing researchers from routine tasks

The Quinex framework automatically structures quantitative data and is designed to help manage the growing flood of data

DNA steps out of the "blueprint" role to become an active "field agent"

Kai Beckmann to become Merck's new CEO on May 1, 2026

At the 31st Annual General Meeting, Belén Garijo symbolically handed over leadership of the DAX company to her successor after five years

Dynamic42 and EPO Close the Gap in Brain Cancer Research

Strategic collaboration integrates organ-on-chip technology into preclinical glioblastoma research to improve translational relevance

Protein inhibition can weaken leukemia cells

Researchers were able to trigger targeted defense reactions and cell death in cancer cells

Are critical raw materials for EVs less critical than previously thought?

A 15-year analysis identifies four innovation leaps that repeatedly reshaped which raw materials the market relies on

AI tool could speed up drug discovery

The algorithm can efficiently predict how new molecules will bend, fold and move

Shimadzu acquires German startup Plasmion and its SICRIT ionization technology

The mass spectrometry technique enables high-sensitivity real-time analysis without complex sample pretreatment