BMAs: Run your own business

After graduation you must decide: be an employee or start your own business. This is not really the situation for BMAs today, but a collaborative project between Swedish public actors and some companies aims to change that and make entrepreneurs of BMAs.

Many rotor options for refrigerated microcentrifuge

The new 5430 R from Eppendorf is a refrigerated microcentrifuge with several different rotors.

Diagnostics for personalized medicine

Per Matsson from Phadia anticipates changes in the standards for health care. Accordiing to him, expensive new drugs will create a market for more extensive diagnostics.

From planning stage to handshake

"Partnering is an effective tool to get in touch with the decision makers high up in an organization's administration," says Camilla Huse Bondeson at Conlega. And according to her, rigorous planning is the way to succeed.

How to get the most out of the fair

Reidar Rasmussen, Labmodul

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Cate Poulsen, Qiagen

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Life science in Stockholm

Sweden has the fourth-largest biotech market in Europe. More than half of its biotechnology enterprise, some 460 companies, is located in the Stockholm region.

Diagnostics to deal with new diseases

Maria Brytting at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, SMI, will share her experiences from April 2009 when the new influenza A virus, H1N1, was first reported globally.

Dry blood DNA storage on a matrix

Qiagen recently presented a method of dry blood sample storage as an alternative to storage in freezers.

Young, bright and committed to labtech

, becoming the new CEO of Swedish Labtech.

Per Hammargren, Sales Director, ICU Scandinavia AB

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Multiple rotor options in refrigerated microcentrifuge

The new 5430 R from Eppendorf is a refrigerated microcentrifuge with several different rotors.

Gabor Fischer, Distribution Sales Manager Europe, Ismatec

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Per Norstedt, Regional Manager, AH Diagnostics

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Einar Pontén, Managing Director, Merck Sequant

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Martin Willner, Manager Lab, Nordic Service Manager, Mettler-Toledo AB

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Age essential when testing drugs

Anders Rane has been arguing that genes and age are both important factors in understanding how medicines affect individuals. Only last year, the EU established regulations stating that pharmaceuticals must be tested for children as well as for adults.

Fyra nya ägare - 5,9 miljarder

Den nionde november blev det offentligt vilka som köper upp de åtta kluster med apotek, som OAB har bestämt ska säljas.

Cellodlingssystem för labbänken

Celligen Blu är en ny bioreaktor från Brunswick Scientifics, liten nog att ställa på labbänken.

Symphogen öppnar kontor i Nordamerika

Danska Symphogen etablerar sig i USA med huvudkontor i Princeton, New Jersey. Adriann Sax som nyligen utsågs till affärschef på bolaget ska leda verksamheten. Företaget kommer att vara ett helägt dotterbolag till Symphogen.

Ny roll för leukemigen upptäckt

Två gener, som var för sig är kända för sina cancerframkallande egenskaper, kan tillsammans leda till aggressiv leukemi. - Det här är ett förvånande fynd som tyder på att det finns en mekanism bakom cancerutvecklingen som vi inte känt till tidigare, säger Martin Bergö som leder forskningen vid Sahlgrenska akademin.

Slemprotein fungerar som bete

Forskare vid Sahlgrenska akademin har identifierat ett protein som kan förklara varför en del människor lättare drabbas av magsår än andra.

Leo Pharmas USA-chef klar

- Vår närvaro i USA skapar en plattform som ger oss möjlighet att själva ta alla framtida produkter till marknaden genom vår egen filial, säger John Koconis, som blir vd för USA-kontoret i New Jersey.