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20th Anniversary - Strasbourg, France, Meet & Matchhttps://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/event/best-of-meet-match -
20th Anniversary - Best of Meet & Match
Strasbourg, France, Meet & Matchhttps://www.bio-pro.de/en/events/past-events/best-of-meet-match -
Press release - 19/10/2021 Gips Schüle Research Award for three scientists from the University of Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Harald Gießen from the Institute of Physics (4) as well as Prof. Dr. Alois Herkommer and Dr. Simon Thiele from the Institute of Applied Optics at the University of Stuttgart received the Gips Schüle Research Award 2021 on October 19, 2021. The researchers were awarded the prize, which is valued at EUR 50,000.
https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/press-release/gips-schuele-research-award-three-scientists-university-stuttgart -
Press release - 25/08/2021 Material efficiency holds great potential for climate neutrality and should be utilized more for this purpose
An international research team has calculated the potential for material efficiency strategies in residential buildings and passenger cars. Up to two-thirds of global emissions could be saved in these areas, provided that appropriate strategies are consistently implemented.
https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/material-efficiency-holds-great-potential-climate-neutrality-and-should-be-utilized-more-purpose -
3R-Center - 18/08/2021 Putting alternatives to animal testing into practice
Animal experiments are still central to biomedical research. However, it has become increasingly clear that not all of them are absolutely necessary. Alternative techniques exist. The new 3R-Netzwerk Baden-Württemberg is now seeking to promote these more vigorously - and improve animal welfare in cases where alternatives to animal testing are not available.
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Press release - 16/08/2021 Heidelberg is calling for life sciences start-ups
As a dominant part of southern Germany’s life-science industry hub, Heidelberg will soon have a life-science startup incubator of its own. BioLabs, the premier US network of managed co-working lab space, will open its first German branch in the Heidelberg Innovation Park (hip). On August 16, representatives of city and state governments, BioLabs and the life-science industry celebrated the Heidelberg BioLabs groundbreaking.
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Workplace of the future - 10/08/2021 Intelligent body support system for surgery staff
Operating room staff often spend hours in strenuous postures, which has a significant impact on concentration and quality of work. While operating room equipment is increasingly networked, state-of-the-art medical technology, conditions for operating room staff trail way behind. The start-up company Hellstern medical offers an effective solution for serious pain, fatigue and incorrect interventions.
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Alpha-Protein GmbH - 27/07/2021 Insect farming for sustainability
Mealworms instead of fish meal and soybean meal - this is what the sustainable future of feed production looks like as Alpha-Protein GmbH see it. The company has built a highly efficient automated production plant in which residual materials from local food production are used to breed mealworms.
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Press release - 09/07/2021 Refuels Are Suited for Wide Use
Refuels are renewable fuels that can be produced in different ways. When they are mixed and processed such that they meet the existing fuel standards, they are suited for all types of combustion engines. This is the result of the latest vehicle and fleet tests within the project “reFuels – Rethinking Fuels” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Compared to fully fossil fuels, refuel mixes allow for a CO2 reduction by 25% at least. Moreover,…
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Article - 08/07/2021 Individual operation risk assessment by the Cognitive Medical Assistant
Despite modern surgical techniques and anaesthetic procedures, serious complications can occur during surgical interventions. An interdisciplinary team at Heidelberg University Hospital has launched a project called the Cognitive Medical Assistant (German: Der Kognitive Medizinische Assistant, KoMed for short), designed to better assess the individual risk of these interventions. The project’s goal is to systematically and comprehensively analyse…
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Final chord of the EU-project Smart SMEs - 31/05/2021 Building a sustainable network for natural fibre-based SMEs in the Alpine Space
The European project Smart SMEs came successfully to its end in May 2021 with the final conference, which attracted participants from different parts of Europe.
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Zero Bullshit Company - 31/05/2021 From being thrown away to becoming a recycled product - Stuttgart start-up produces healthy snacks
Throwing away food? The Stuttgart-based start-up Zero Bullshit Company is declaring war on food wastage by making nutrient-rich products largely from food industry leftovers. The three food technologists who created this transparent brand are looking to develop more than just delicious and nutritious products.
https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/news/being-thrown-away-becoming-recycled-product-stuttgart-start-produces-healthy-snacks -
Digitalisation of the healthcare system Photon-Counting (PC)-CT Consortium
Installing the next digital generation of computed tomography at various Baden-Württemberg medical centres (PC3)
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Health Data Scenarios Health Data Scenarios
Data generated by the healthcare system has enormous potential for improving the quality of patient-centered care. As part of the Health Data Scenarios project, Basel Area Business & Innovation worked with numerous experts from industry and academia in 2020 to develop ten scenarios of what future health data ecosystems could look like. These scenarios are now being discussed and validated together with experts and opinion leaders from…
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Press release - 23/04/2021 The Amazing Field of Science: Bioeconomy to End the Ecological Crisis
Population growth and the increasing standard of living make our society face big ecological challenges: Climate change, littering of the seas, dwindling agricultural areas, resource scarcity. Bioeconomy aims at replacing fossil by regenerative resources and at using advanced and sustainable technologies based on biological knowledge and principles.
https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/amazing-field-science-bioeconomy-end-ecological-crisis -
Press release - 20/04/2021 Cellulose fibers against climate change
Protecting the global climate is an undertaking that presents both industry and society with a major task. It will not be possible to achieve the climate targets simply by limiting global emissions, by saving carbon dioxide (CO2). This is because there will continue to be unavoidable CO2 emissions that will nevertheless have to be compensated.
https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/cellulosefasern-gegen-den-klimawandel -
Press release - 08/04/2021 How to enhance innovative value chains in the bioeconomy in the Alpine Space?
The European Interreg project AlpLinkBioEco in comes April 2021 to a successful end. The final conference of the project was conducted on the 31st of March 2021 and attracted over 160 participants from different parts of Europe. AlpLinkBioEco, of which BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg is a partner, has been running for three years (2018-2021) as part of the EU-Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP).
https://www.bio-pro.de/en/information/press-release/how-enhance-innovative-value-chains-bioeconomy-alpine-space -
Quantum Technology Ulm - 08/04/2021 Diamonds for life sciences innovations
The world's first commercial quantum computer,’IBM Q System One’, is now in operation in Ehningen near Stuttgart. This is a major leap forward in quantum technology in Germany. It marks the point at which conventional computers reach their limits. The University of Ulm is involved in three of six collaborative projects being funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Construction.
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Press release - 01/04/2021 Joint Masterplan on bioeconomy in the Alpine macro-region unveiled
AlpLinkBioEco Interreg project presents one of its main results.
https://www.bio-pro.de/en/information/press-release/joint-masterplan-bioeconomy-alpine-macro-region-unveiled -
Event - Meet & Match 2021 – Microbiome
Online, Registration deadline: Meet & Matchhttps://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/event/meet-match-2021-microbiome -
Event - Meet & Match 2021 – Microbiome
Online, Registration deadline: Meet & Matchhttps://www.bio-pro.de/en/events/past-events/meet-match-2021-microbiome -
Article - 17/03/2021 Epigenetic switches in bacteria as biosensors
The analysis of pathogen biomarkers and biomarkers for the diagnosis of diseases can be crucial for health. However, the detection of pathogens and diseases depends on a sensitive and reliable method that delivers rapid results. Biosensors have such properties. Researchers at the Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry (IBTB) at Stuttgart University have constructed an epigenetic circuit composed of plasmids that might make it…
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Paper technology - 10/03/2021 PLAFCO – a sustainable plastic substitute made from paper
Plastic is indispensable: it is cheap and practical and found in many disposable products such as drinking straws, disposable tableware or even packaging like bonded beverage cartons or bags – and it has a disastrous effect on the environment. The start-up company Plafco Fibertech Oy has developed a sustainable plastic substitute made of paper that could replace many disposable plastic products in the future.
https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/news/plafco-sustainable-plastic-substitute-made-paper