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Tecan Journal

Selected issue: 1/2026

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Reaching for the stars – saliva testing and the biology of space travel

Many of us dreamed of becoming astronauts, inspired by the promise of space exploration. Yet beyond its allure, space travel has complex effects on the human body and mind that require careful study. Understanding these impacts is vital to keep...

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Vitamin analysis: new approaches built on old traditions

Basel, Switzerland, has a long tradition in healthcare and life sciences and is widely regarded as the birth place of the Swiss pharmaceutical industry. Today, this legacy continues through a strong ecosystem of academic, clinical, and industrial...

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Improving the lives of the “butterfly children”

“Seeing the patients every day visiting our outpatient clinic is a strong motivation for our research” reflects Dr. Roland Zauner, TechOps and Scientific Lead at the EB Research Institute in Salzburg, Austria. “This is what drives the team.”

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Powering protein discovery with NGS

Proteomics workflows have long been plagued by inefficiencies, low coverage and the inability to detect low abundance targets in biological samples, lagging behind equivalent genomics workflows. SomaLogic, now part of Standard BioTools Inc., changed...

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Empowering research through automation: Stellenbosch University’s biofoundry

Biofoundries are advanced facilities that integrate high-end equipment and skilled people with automation, synthetic biology, and high-throughput technologies, providing the infrastructure to engineer biological systems systematically, transforming...

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Automation helps nucleic acid foundry to accelerate cell and gene therapy development

Officinae Bio, a synthetic biology start-up based in Italy, has developed an AI-based software platform to aid the design of DNA vectors for drug discovery. The company is combining this powerful technology with automated synthesis and assembly...

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