29.01.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
Under the leadership of the University of Magdeburg, a European research consortium wants to combine two medical imaging techniques for the first time and make them usable for agriculture.
18.01.2024 Studies and statistics
Food unspecific Agriculture sciences
The Green Alliance think tank has analysed how a switch to a plant-based diet could affect land use in ten European countries.
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:00 In-depth report
Agriculture and forestry Microorganisms Agriculture sciences
Plant roots are hotspots of the soil ecosystem and an important starting point for arable farming and soil management. The interaction between plant roots and their immediate environment is a key biological process that researchers want to better understand and utilise in order to make agriculture more sustainable.
31.01.2024 News
Food Fungi Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Hamburg-based biotech company Infinite Roots - formerly Mushlabs - has secured 58 million US dollars in a Series B financing round for the development and production of new meat substitutes based on mushroom mycelium.
06.02.2024 News
Food unspecific Agriculture sciences
A global report involving researchers from Potsdam shows how the global economy would benefit from an agricultural and food transition and underlines the urgent need to revise the political framework.
02.02.2024 News
Chemistry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Berlin start-up Vyld has raised millions from investors as part of an early-stage financing round, thereby securing the further development of its seaweed products.
12.02.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
According to a study, the combined cultivation of maize and runner beans is characterized by lower yields, but lower nutrient losses and greater biodiversity compared to a maize monoculture.
15.02.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology
An international research team led by Munich agricultural scientist Senthold Asseng has modeled for the first time how the fungal disease wheat blast affects wheat production as a result of climate change.
08.02.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology
The EU Commission's amended proposal to relax genetic engineering legislation for certain genome-edited plants was adopted by the European Parliament by a narrow majority.
16.02.2024 News
unspecific unspecific Bioökonomie mitgestalten
With the new "BioKreativ" funding initiative, the BMBF is enabling young researchers from the natural, IT and engineering sciences to set up a junior research group for bioeconomy research. Apply by April 15.
20.02.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Chemistry
Researchers at Cologne University of Applied Sciences have commissioned a pilot plant to test the cultivation of microalgae in a biofilm to purify landfill leachate.
27.02.2024 News
Food Fungi Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Berlin and Leipzig-based start-up Pacifico Biolabs has raised 3.3 million US dollars in a financing round for the development of alternative fish and seafood.
26.02.2024 News
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The German Federal Environmental Foundation has launched a new funding initiative to support innovative projects in which stakeholders work together on concrete change processes for sustainable development. Submit project ideas by May 15.
22.02.2024 News
Chemistry unspecific Biotechnology/Systems biology
A research team at TU Braunschweig has combined various methods to make a scanning tunneling microscope usable for the surface analysis of peptides.
28.02.2024 News
Chemistry Waste Biotechnology/Systems biology
As part of the ReMatBuilt project, Fraunhofer researchers and partners from China have developed sustainable building materials made from recycled concrete and plant residues.
02.07.2024 Interview
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
Luisa Gronenberg and her team from the Munich start-up Insempra are developing an innovative bioprocess to produce polyester and polyamides from residual and waste materials. The team is receiving millions in funding from SPRIND.
04.03.2024 News
Food unspecific Agriculture sciences
An 18-member panel of experts forms the new Senate Commission of the German Research Foundation for the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
11.03.2024 Success story
Chemistry unspecific Chemistry
As part of the Biogasohol project, researchers from Rostock are working with Vietnamese partners to develop new catalysts and processes to convert carbon dioxide and methane from biogas into synthesis gas and make it usable for the chemical industry.
07.03.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
The biotech companies AMSilk and BRAIN Biotech are announcing their first successes as part of their research and development alliance, which has only been running for a year: the optimization of a structural protein using computer-aided design and the patent application for the process.
14.03.2024 News
Chemistry Waste Biotechnology/Systems biology
The bioeconomy start-up traceless materials will launch the first large-scale production of its biomaterials in the former Wedemann bakery in Hamburg-Harburg.
