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Japanska forskare har tillverkat en levande dockmodell av levercancerceller och collagen. Dockan kan bli ett nytt redskap för att testa nya läkemedel i en miljö som liknar den inne i människokroppen.

Helge Sander: "Fler kvinnor behövs"

- Det är något fel när det ena könet i stort sett väljer bort en karriär som forskare, säger Danmarks forskningsminister. Idag håller han rundabordssamtal för att diskutera varför kvinnliga forskare missgynnas. Han välkomnar alla lösningar, utom en.

Roche sänker budet på Genentech

I juli ifjol var budet 89 dollar per aktie. Då sa Genentechs styrelse nej tack. Nu meddelar läkemedelsjätten att man sänker budet och vänder sig direkt till småägarna.

Major changes to the Q-Med board

The nomination committee wants to replace half of the existing board, including the current Chairman. An Extraordinary General Meeting will take place on February 4.

New study of toxins and heart disease

Is there a correlation between exposure to hormone interfering environmental toxins and increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease? A new patient study will try to evaluate this, and one thousand people are to be included.

Less scars with new product

A new Swedish product for post surgical scar formation enters clinical development.

EU says yes to Roche drug

EU approves a first in class therapy for treatment of patients with moderate to severe form of rheumatoid arthritis.

Vattenfall is firing with biomass

Vattenfall will provide Denmark with electricity by means of biomass.

Biotech goes white and bright

White biotech could become Denmark's next blossoming business area.

Medtech companies find new beam technique

The medtech companies Raysearch and Nucletron expand collaboration with two new solutions for radiation treatment planning.

Abbott expands by acquisition

An acquisition gives Abbott a leadership position in another large and growing medical device segment.

Finnish Innovation Fund gets new leader

The Supervisory Board of the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra has appointed members of the Board, including a new president.

LEO Pharma - International Clinical Trial Manager

Crafoord Prize to an American and two Japanese

Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the laureates of the Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2009.

Norwegian describes scrapie gene

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

New faces in Pronova Biopharma team

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

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.

Bring talent to those in need

Ho ho ho, Christmas time is here again. So get busy decking the halls, perhaps not with assorted greenery, but with something of a more lasting value.

Ambassador program makes MVA big in Japan

The first ambassadors of the Medicon Valley Ambassador Programme have only worked in each other's countries for six months. But they have already made a significant difference for their sister clusters.