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Introducing Xenopus!

Over the past couple of weeks, you might have encountered men of all ages, proudly wearing a freshly grown moustache. During the month of November, many men take part in Movember, an annual event which involves growing a moustache to raise awareness around men’s health and in particular men’s mental health and prostate and testicular cancer. World-wide Movember foundations raise money and organise events with the aim of increasing early cancer detection, diagnosis and effective treatments. While raising awareness and increasing early detection may prevent many deaths, a better comprehension…

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29 November 2021

News

Bionomous has been selected for the Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program

MassRobotics and FESTO have selected Bionomous for the Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program. The Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program is a new program launched by MassRobotics, FESTO and other key players in the space which aims at connecting healthcare robotics startups with customers, investors, and suppliers and to give them marketing and overall support. Four startups have been selected in this first edition, being Bionomous one of them. The topics covered by the other startups are quite diverse, from at-home physical therapy solutions or the track of different impairments after…

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23 November 2021

News

Bionomous has been granted an InnoSuisse project

Bionomous has been awarded an InnoSuisse project to collaborate with the Swiss research center CSEM. Having started the 1st of November, the InnoSuisse project aims at developing new modules compatible with Bionomous' current EggSorter to optimize and improve zebrafish embryo handling in an automatic fashion. In collaboration with CSEM we will work on the validation of our current technology and the modifications needed for the release of a final version of the EggSorter by the end of 2022. The project also covers the development of new modules for zebrafish embryo…

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16 November 2021

News

1st Lausanne Fish User Meeting

Bionomous sponsored the 1st Lausanne Fish User Meeting Last Friday 5th of November, the 1st Lausanne Fish User Meeting took place. Bionomous was one of the sponsors of the event, and Frank Bonnet, CEO and co-founder at Bionomous, and Ana Hernando, CMO and co-founder were present. The event was wonderfully organised. It was composed of different talks where the different groups using fish as a model for research presented their projects. And we say fish, yes ! As in addition to zebrafish, there was also a group using killifish, so…

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8 November 2021

1st Lausanne Fish User Meeting

Bionomous is sponsoring the 1st Lausanne Fish User Meeting ! Next Friday 5th of November, the Lausanne community for fish research will meet for the first time. This event aims at bringing together all the groups doing research with fish in Lausanne to discuss the different topics that they study. The fish research community in Lausanne is mainly focused on zebrafish, and we also have some groups using killifish for studies in the areas of epigenetics, stem cells, aging. At Bionomous we decided to sponsor this great event since we…

Articles

Caudal fin regeneration in zebrafish

Halloween is right around the corner and you will soon be seeing various spooky creatures parading down the streets: ghosts, wizards and zombies which might even be missing a limb. While ghosts and wizards are usually classified as magical creatures, zombies have something in them which make them slightly more real. A zombie is an animated corpse which has been brought back to life and although resurrection remains completely unreal, regenerative medicine has been working on replacing and regenerating defective cells, tissues and organs with the goal of restoring normal function. Some animals…

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25 October 2021

Seed Round Celebration

Bionomous SA has raised a 1.3M CHF Seed Round and we want to celebrate with you! Last week we announced the closing of a CHF 1.3 million Seed funding round. Reaching this milestone is a key step for us, and we want to celebrate it with you! We are delighted to invite you to an after work apéro that will take place on the 22nd of September at Maxon Motor's offices in the EPFL Innovation Park, Building F, 1st floor. Our doors will be open from 17:30, and our team…

News

BIONOMOUS raises CHF 1.3 million Seed funding in a round led by Nivalis Group

BIONOMOUS announces today it has raised a CHF 1.3 million Seed funding round led by Nivalis Group, with participation from SICTIC business angels and Venture Kick. Since we founded Bionomous in 2019 it has been a challenging and exciting pathway to get where we are today. The closing of this Seed funding round is a huge milestone for our company. This fresh investment will allow us to accelerate the testing phase of the EggSorter, to develop a certified product ready-for-market, and to prepare for industrialization. The investment from Nivalis Group marks the start…

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9 September 2021

Articles

Zebrafish larvae as a model to decision-making processes – a case study

We make thousands of decisions every day. It has been estimated that we make around 220 decisions each day only related to food (1). Choice is fundamental for our lives, as well as for the behaviour of all the other animals. Making a decision requires to integrate physiological and psychological information to choose a course of action or a belief among several available options.Understanding the mechanisms by which animals integrate information from their senses over space and time to make sensory-motor decisions is at the core of the reviewed article…

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30 August 2021

Open Positions

Une/un ingénieur(e) logiciel (80 – 100%)

A propos de BionomousBionomous est une spin-off du Laboratoire de Biorobotique de l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, en Suisse. Notre équipe travaille sur le développement et la commercialisation de machines pour automatiser certains procédés en biologie et en biotechnologie, dans le but de faciliter et d’accélérer la recherche dans certains domaines comme la génétique, la toxicologie, la biologie du développement et pour des tests non-cliniques.Votre missionTravailler au sein d’une Start-up suisse en expansion sur le développement d’outils permettant d’augmenter l’efficacité de la recherche en Science de la Vie. La/le candidat(e)…

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21 July 2021