Robotics in medicine: initial trials of HASEL technology - 04/11/2026

Using artificial muscles to reduce uncontrolled tremors

For people with tremors, even simple everyday tasks can become a challenge. Researchers from Stuttgart and Tübingen are developing a novel assistive system designed to actively suppress these involuntary movements. Initial tests using artificial muscles based on HASEL technology have shown promising results – but there is still a long way to go before the technology is ready for everyday use.

Researchers at the Faculty of Medicine – University of Freiburg have developed a new approach to specifically target an aggressive form of blood cancer while better sparing healthy immune cells. In what is known as T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), cancer cells develop from the body’s own immune defense cells. This complicates treatment, as immunotherapies studied to date can also destroy healthy immune cells.

VUSE XR today announced the closing of a €1.2 million pre-seed financing round led by IACD, a Düsseldorf-based business angel network. The company develops the VUSE XR Hub, an enterprise software solution for creating and deploying mixed reality training for industrial and life sciences companies.

Prime Vector Technologies is developing a new vaccine platform - 20/10/2026

The ORF platform – one virus, many possibilities

Many vaccines effectively deliver an antigen to the desired target site. But what if, at the same time, the immune system could be specifically orchestrated to build broad and comprehensive protection? This idea led to the development of a novel vector platform based on the Orf virus. The work was carried out by the Tübingen-based start-up Prime Vector Technologies.

How do RNA-, protein- or stem cell-based therapies work? How can data science methods from bioinformatics and artificial intelligence be used to develop new pharmaceutical active substances? Students at Ulm University are learning this in the new master’s programme in Pharmaceutical and Molecular Biotechnology (PMB).