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Switzerland has once again been named the world’s most talent-competitive country. The country offers a high quality of life, including excellent education and employment prospects. Companies benefit from the global talent hubs that are Switzerland and the Greater Zurich Area.

Schlieren - Hemotune has secured investment of 14 million Swiss francs in a Series B2 financing round. The medtech company intends to use the fresh capital to move its blood purification system, the HemoSystem, into clinical trials.

Manno/Bellinzona - TissueLabs has secured investment of 800,000 US dollars and has opened a new biofabrication hub in Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino. The fresh capital will help to improve the company’s proprietary technology platforms in addition to establishing strategic partnerships.

Zürich - Researchers from the University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich have discovered how mutated blood cancer cells can be made to respond to an immunotherapy approach again. Genetically enhanced immune cells used in combination with drugs can eliminate resistance in blood cancer cells.

Schlieren - Biognosys has improved the plasma proteomics workflows for its TrueDiscovery platform. The new workflows leverage an innovative method for plasma enrichment that captures up to 7000 protein groups in large-scale drug studies and enables a previously unattainable throughput.

Zurich - Two Zurich-based researchers, via their company dAIgnose, have developed an algorithm that reliably identifies endometriosis on ultrasound images of the womb. This is often difficult to achieve with the human eye alone. It is hoped that the procedure will remove the need for laborious and costly laparoscopy procedures.

Schlieren/Shenzhen - Fixposition and Autocity have announced a new collaboration. The Vision-RTK 2 positioning sensor developed by Fixposition is to be integrated in the Guangpo autonomous street sweeper from the Chinese manufacturer.

Zurich/Regensburg - Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the KUNO Klinik St. Hedwig in Regensburg have developed an algorithm capable of detecting pulmonary hypertension in newborns. The Artificial Intelligence is also able to suggest the correct diagnosis.

Cham - Sedimentum has changed its name to Helpany and is expanding into San Francisco. At the same time, the medtech startup is unveiling its new radar-based security system Paul.