News Sep 08, 2020 Hackathon provides solutions for sustainable agriculture Around 70 participants developed innovative prototypes and solutions for the agriculture of tomorrow as part of a hackathon event held at the Lie...
News Sep 07, 2020 Roche testing for coronavirus and flu simultaneously The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the Basel-based life sciences company Roche authorization to use a test that simultaneously tests...
News Sep 07, 2020 Vaud-based cybersecurity specialist Kudelski partners with Amazon The American e-commerce giant Amazon has chosen the Vaud-based encryption and secure access specialist Kudelski to perform cybersecurity tests on...
News Sep 04, 2020 Blockchain will aid logistics into the future For some time now, the blockchain ecosystem of the Greater Zurich Area has comprised far more than just cryptocurrencies. This technology is bein...
News Sep 01, 2020 Polyphor awarded exclusive licensing agreement for China The Basel Area-based company Polyphor has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Fosun Pharma in China. Fosun Pharma will lead clinical dev...
News Sep 01, 2020 University of Bern carries out first ever daylight observations of space debris Researchers at the University of Bern are the first in the world to succeed in determining the distance to a space debris object using a geodetic...
News Aug 31, 2020 New label guarantees that data remains in Switzerland With the new “swiss hosting” label, the Basel-based company swiss made software Gmbh is guaranteeing that data will not be transferred outside of...
News Aug 28, 2020 Ruf launches fever measuring camera to prevent Covid spread The developer of ICT solutions, Ruf Avatech, has designed a fever measuring camera suitable for use in crowds. This would allow up to 45 sick or ...
News Aug 28, 2020 Hostpoint bears new quality label The IT service company Hostpoint is one of the first Swiss hosting providers entitled to bear the “swiss hosting” quality label. This label is a ...
News Aug 27, 2020 Interview with Swiss entrepreneur Laurent Balmelli Laurent Balmelli is a Vaud-based entrepreneur with extensive experience working for multinationals and getting successful companies off the groun...
News Aug 26, 2020 The Bern Center for Precision Medicine advances personalized therapies for cancer patients Researchers at the Bern Center for Precision Medicine have discovered which genes play an important role in patients’ various responses to radiat...
News Aug 26, 2020 EPFL develops the first synthetic inhibitor for artificial lungs In a study led by EPFL, scientists have developed a synthetic blood-thinner that, unlike all others, doesn’t cause bleeding side-effects. The hig...
News Aug 25, 2020 Bloom Diagnostics raises capital for COVID-19 antibody tests The smart diagnosis system developed by Bloom Diagnostics is set to make COVID-19 antibody testing accessible to all. The test process takes just...
News Aug 25, 2020 Switzerland ranked in second place globally The chemical and pharmaceutical industry of Switzerland has been ranked number two in the world after the USA in terms of competitiveness. As Swi...
News Aug 24, 2020 Expense Robot is the new partner of bta first travel Bta first travel has opted to partner up with Expense Robot. The business trip operator will make available Expense Robot’s innovative technology...
News Aug 21, 2020 Researchers develop novel approach against the coronavirus The Swiss National Science Foundation is funding a novel approach for a coronavirus vaccine. This approach developed by virologist Cornel Fraefel...
News Aug 20, 2020 Lugaia adds new building and cleanroom production area to its Valais site Lugaia, a company specializing in packaging and disposable systems for the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology industries, has inaugurated...
News Aug 20, 2020 Swiss scientists revolutionize fluorescence microscopy The glass slides used to prepare samples for looking at under a microscope have hardly changed in the nearly 200 years since their invention. Bre...