Swiss allergy therapy convinces

Cytos Biotechnology presents promising results in a study of a new therapy against allergy and asthma.

Trio goes in for high tech medicines

The Swedish drug discovery company Beactica announces fragment-based drug discovery research collaboration with GE Healthcare and the University of Uppsala.

Prenatal testing breakthrough

For the first time specific gene expression information from fetal cells isolated from maternal blood samples is available.

Biogaia's advance goes on

In December Biogaia reached China and North America. Now, the Swedish probiotic company has entered the Mexican market.

Elekta gets ok from China

The Swedish medtech comapny Elekta has received approval from the Chinese authority State Food and Drug Administration, SFDA, to sell its linear accelerator in China.

Danish discovery could help cardiac patients

The Danish researchers have developed a component that could make live easier forpatients with heart failure.

Norwegian describes scrapie gene

Intestinal lymphatic tissue is important for the absorption and spread of the scrapie prion, suggests a Norwegian researcher.

New Nordic nutrition collaboration

Scandinavian Clinical Nutrition has recently signed a unique Nordic distribution agreement.

New faces in Pronova Biopharma team

The Norwegian company Pronova Biopharma has recently changed the management team structure.

Danish biorefinery can save US billions

The Danish Inbicon biorefinery process could save the US billions on foreign oil, the organization states.

Recipharm launches into biologics manufacturing

Recently a Swedish biomanufacturing facility transfers from Astrazeneca to Recipharm Biologics.

Danish focus on bio chemicals

The Danish company Genencor and the German company BRAIN establish a research collaboration for the production of biobased chemicals from renewable feedstock.

Danish focus on bio chemicals

The Danish company Genencor and the German company BRAIN establish a research collaboration for the production of biobased chemicals from renewable feedstock.

Danish focus on bio chemicals

The Danish company Genencor and the German company BRAIN establish a research collaboration for the production of biobased chemicals from renewable feedstock.

Danish focus on bio chemicals

The Danish company Genencor and the German company BRAIN establish a research collaboration for the production of biobased chemicals from renewable feedstock.

Danish focus on bio chemicals

The Danish company Genencor and the German company BRAIN establish a research collaboration for the production of biobased chemicals from renewable feedstock.

Medtech giant separates

Due to the global economic situation, the medtech companies Q-Med and the Palomar Medical Technologies has terminated its international agreement.

Bio engineering breakthrough in Denmark

Brand new research makes BioGasol's cellulosic ethanol process even more competitive.

Control of blood vessels can treat obesity

Mice exposed to low temperatures develop more blood vessels in their adipose tissue and metabolise body fat more quickly, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet.

Glucose facilitates the use of indigo

The Finnish researcher Anne Vuorema oat the MTT Agrifood Research Finland proves in her new doctoral dissertation that glucose can serve as a reducing agent of indigo.

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Meda gets access to Asia

The biotech giant Meda has recently acquires world-wide rights to the cancer breakthrough pain drug Onsolis.

Time to save for survival

The future is bright for the biotech industry. However, the companies need to cut costs immediately if they want to survive the rough economic times.

Martin Bergö: "The Idea is the Thing"

Martin Bergö, 38, goes wherever ideas take him - it's a process that has led to, and resulted from, plenty of unexpected results. Those ideas have been recognized as good ones: in 2008, he was awarded the Eric K. Fernström Foundation's Prize for young researchers. It isn't the first award for the Associate Professor at Gothenburg University's Sahlgrenska Academy. In 2007, he received a grant award of 16 million SEK from the European Research Council for his pioneering work.