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Analyse, identify, quantify

Adlershof biotech companies have adopted a powerful position on the world market with their innovative analytical methods for protein manufacture:

Proteins are the elementary building blocks of life. Yet there is much about these substances that is yet to be researched. Especially in the human body, molecules and their interactions are complex, and often too…

Kneading and correlating

Drug delivery systems by Adlershof company TheraKine work like a Trojan horse :

It’s a little like a chocolate factory in Andreas Voigt’s laboratories: Powders are poured, mixed, and kneaded by hand to specific consistencies. Instead of gustatory delights, however, this production targets…

Protein snippets in the fight against cancer

Adlershof company 3B Pharmaceuticals develops peptide agents for the treatment of cancer and haemophilia :

Jan Michel travels a lot. Just recently, the commercial manager of 3B Pharmaceuticals (3BP) was again attending a pharmaceuticals trade fair in Barcelona. During tightly organized half hour meetings he presented his…

Adlershof in Figures

April 2013:

Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing on an area of 4.2…

SCIENION and Innopsys agree on a joint product offering for reverse phase protein arrays

Added value for customers combining technologies of both companies into a complete assay solution:

SCIENION AG and France-based Innopsys, a manufacturer of high resolution microarray scanners, today announced a cooperation agreement on a seamless integration of its microarray production and detection…

Adlershofer Cutting- Edge Drug Delivery Company TheraKine in Joint Venture with RBCC

As part of a bold expansion into the $60 billion global drug delivery market, Rainbow BioSciences, the biotech division of Rainbow Coral Corp. (RBCC), today announced it has formed a new partnership to solve the…

Spanish Crisis does not effect LUM products

LUM awarded Spanish partner Best Distributor 2012:

From March 4-6 the 14th International Sales Meeting took place at the new headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof. LUM, market leader in analytical instruments for direct and accelerated characterization of …

New centrifuge technology will enable multi-sample adhesive and composite strength testing

85% time saving:

A new analytical centrifuge is being used to test adhesive bonds, coatings and composites. BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing’s scientists had the idea that samples should no longer be clamped,…

Adlershof Special 26: IT and Media

Advantage cooperation // Healthy data exchange // Self sufficient components for the homes of the future // Training and flying // Getting off the ground // IT from Adlershof enhances TV images // Cash, crime and…

Advantage cooperation

Adlershof as a functioning IT network:

Berlin is one of Europe's prime IT-locations. In Adlershof alone there are about eighty companies working in IT and media. They profit from their contacts with science and trade partners and from a wide range of…

Healthy data exchange

Adlershof's solutions in medical engineering:

Information and telecommunications technology is also adopting an ever greater role in health care – and not least of all because new diagnostics and therapies generate huge amounts of data. Adlershof companies…

Self sufficient components for the homes of the future

GFaI research introduces greater flexibility to facilities:

“The utilisation of ambient energy represents a new quality,” replied Professor Alfred Iwainsky when asked about the role of IT technology in the homes of the future. The physics graduate is Chair of GFaI, an…

Training and flying

Social business and e-learning modules:

Like learning, working nowadays need no longer be bound to the one fixed location. This independence of geographical locations promotes freedom in the choice of time and place, but also gives rise to organizational…

Getting off the ground

Humboldt Innovation has a strong focus on Adlershof:

Functional fixedness can be expressed as follows: “We’ve always done it that way, why should we do it any differently now?” Ranking beside the lack of funds or skills to launch, market, or push through an invention in…

IT from Adlershof enhances TV-Images

...and secures industrial production:

Whether TV images, sound, or lignite – the efficiency of their production is enhanced by components from the company FOC fibre optical components. And where the security of industrial production is concerned, this…

Cash, crime, and cryptography

They manage dollar reserves, itemise valuable museum collections, and encrypt NATO data. The software companies of Adlershof provide developments that enhance security at many authorities and business…

By car, train, and cargo bike

IT for the mobile generation:

IT for the mobile generation – this is a discipline that a number of companies are tackling in Adlershof. Ideas for the mobility of the future include precision navigation to the nearest metre on forest tracks and in…

Narrow line width made affordable

eagleyard Photonics unveils the very cost effective, frequency stabilized Ridge Waveguide Laser product series (RWS):

High quality and cost effectiveness can perfectly match if combined properly within a single component. This does at least apply to eagleyard’s new stabilized ridge waveguide laser diode series where the narrow line…

Touchdown at 633 nm

eagleyard Photonics introduces a new family of single frequency red laser diodes:

With its new DBR1) 633 nm laser diode family, eagleyard Photonics expands its widely introduced Near-IR portfolio into the red. Integrated within the high reliable TO package style, eagleyard’s new GaAs2)-based DBR…

TOPTICA Buys Laser Diode Maker eagleyard

„Closer future collaboration is strengthening Berlin as a center hub for optical technologies“:

Reflecting the continuous growth and to strengthen the core competency „diode lasers“, TOPTICA Photonics AG of Graefelfing/Munich has acquired the majority ownership of the Berlin-based laser diode manufacturer…