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Schlieren - HeiQ, the materials innovation company based in the Greater Zurich Area, has announced the market launch of the Synbio cleaning range in Switzerland. This technology uses probiotics to sustainably clean surfaces and textiles while at the same time protecting people, pets and the environment.

Zurich/Hohenrain - The Sygnum Bank and Victory Works AG are jointly tokenizing a trio of sculptures created by the Swiss artist David Pflugi. His series of Victory Works sculptures were created to mark the past three men’s football world cups and bear the names of all the finalists.

Zurich - Biologists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have discovered a type of molecular weapon in two types of bacteria that can inject substances into other cells or its surroundings in targeted fashion. Such processes could be used in biomedicine in order to target certain cell types or to administer drugs.

Schaffhausen - ZNet Technologies will provide functions for Acronis’s cyber security platform to service providers in the USA and Canada. The aim is to automate the billing and provision of Acronis solutions in ZNet’s cloud and security services.

Kloten/Lugano - Swiss International Airlines and the Lufthansa Group are collaborating with Synhelion, a solar fuel manufacturer based in the Greater Zurich Area. This aims to make Swiss the world’s first airline to fly with solar kerosene.

Schlieren/Boston - Neurimmune is strengthening its collaboration with the AstraZeneca subsidiary Alexion Pharmaceuticals. The company from the Greater Zurich Area has been awarded an exclusive global collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize the cardiomyopathy drug NI006.

Zurich – Helbling helps companies, especially those operating in medical fields, to deploy Artificial Intelligence despite the availability of only limited data sets. To achieve this, the Zurich-based engineering and consulting firm uses techniques such as transfer learning and artificially increasing the amount and variability of data.

Wallisellen - Reishauer AG, the Zurich-based gear grinding technology specialist, has developed a program on the basis of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to monitor its continuous generating gear grinding machines. Argus AI is able to detect changes in components such as wear and tear before automatically reporting these findings to a web app. In this way, users can reduce unplanned interruptions and downtimes.

Unterengstringen - The IT firm WEYTEC has won the award for Best Trading Hardware Provider at the London Trader Show. The system developed by the company from the Greater Zurich Area is used to trade 1,000 billion US dollars each day.