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Lightium wins the 32nd Prix Strategis

Lightium won the Prix Strategis 2025. The startup develops photonic chips for telecommunications and artificial intelligence. The Strategis Prize is awarded by HEC Espace Entreprise in Lausanne. Lightium, a start-up that specializes in photonic integrated circuits, won the Prix Strategis for the 32nd time this year. Based in the Bio-Technopark Schlieren-Zurich,...

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CUTISS granted U.S. patent for automation technology in skin tissue therapy

CUTISS has been granted a new patent in the United States for a core element of its automated platform used to manufacture personalized, bio-engineered human skin grafts. The patent (US Patent No. 12,286,611), titled “Tissue culture vessel for preparation of compressed hydrogel skin grafts and related methods and systems,” protects a...

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Fast, Painless, Precise: New Urine Test for Prostate Cancer Screening

Zurich/Schlieren ZH - Researchers at the University of Zurich are developing a urine test for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. To advance the project and organize mass screening, they have founded the spin-off ONTRACK Biomedical. Biochemist Irina Banzola and urologist Daniel Eberli of the University of Zurich (UZH) have developed a...

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