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Nobel Prize winner Torsten Wiesel turns 100: “Old men like me should use their experience to help the young”
In 1955, a young Torsten Wiesel jumped on a boat to the US and embarked on a fabulous career as a neuroscientist, crowned with a Nobel Prize for his work. Now 100 years old, he looks back on an intense life and his upbringing in Stockholm, Sweden, which
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Innovative start-up helps doctors, scientists and industry balance coagulation risks
For many doctors caring for seriously ill patients, for example, in stroke units and cancer wards, maintaining the life-saving balance between bleeding and thrombosis is an ongoing challenge. In the late 1980s, scientists at Maastricht University
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FHM vill införa vattkoppsvaccin i nationella programmet
Folkhälsomyndigheten föreslår att vaccin mot vattkoppor införs i barnvaccinationsprogrammet, och menar att även vaccination mot bältros kan övervägas av regionerna.
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Han är ny på Sahlgrenska Science Park
Mats Hellström är Sahlgrenska Science Parks nya Lab Manager. I hans nya roll ska han se över satsningen Health Innovation Labs.
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Total pipeline of pharmaceutical companies reaches a record high – 22,921 medicines are currently being developed
Despite the difficult economic times, pharmaceutical companies have never developed as many new drugs as now.
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Lundabolag får brittiskt miljonbidrag för blodtest
Lundabolaget Prolight Diagnostics har fått ett statligt brittiskt bidrag på 17 miljoner kronor för fortsatt utveckling av ett blodtest som ska upptäcka eller utesluta hjärtinfarkt.
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Carl Borrebaeck – professor and serial entrepreneur with a taste for speed
Award-winning cancer researcher, the founder of many listed companies, and constantly in the academic and commercial spotlight for decades. However, Carl Borrebaeck, Professor of Immunotechnology at Lund, is not yet satisfied. “We have a new, potentially super exciting project in the pipeline,” he says.
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Forskaren in Hagastaden now inagurated
The real estate company Vectura's life science center in Hagastaden, Forskaren, is now inaugurated. The opening was attended by people from the industry, politicians and royalty.
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Astra Zeneca's Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria is being withdrawn worldwide
AstraZeneca initiates a worldwide withdrawal of its Covid vaccine Vaxzevria. The measure is taken just months after the company admitted the vaccine can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, but AstraZeneca claims that the decision is purely commercial.
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Japanese pharma to buy US drugmaker for $2.4 bln
Japanese Ono Pharmaceutical buys the American cancer drug developer Deciphera Pharmaceuticals in one of the largest acquisitions in the industry so far this year.
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Ancient DNA provides new insights – “The immune system lost its job”
Ancient bone remains from our ancestors have provided new insights into the prevalence of multiple sclerosis. By looking back in time, researchers can provide a possible explanation for why the disease is more prevalent in northern Europe.
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List: The coolest names in biotech
Hairy beasts, volcanic material and space strolling stand out on a US list of the best biotech company names, and on a list of the coolest names for pharmaceuticals, a Swedish, or at least Swedish-British, drug came out on top.
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Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse
The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala researcher Charlotte Blease, co-author of a book on the phenomenon.
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The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine
The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast cancer, testifies to this.
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Förkylningskurer ska undersökas i regeringsuppdrag
Vi vet för lite om vårt vanligaste sjukdomstillstånd. Det anser regeringen, som delar ut två nya uppdrag för att öka vår kunskap om förkylningar.
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Recipharm divests five Swedish plants
Swedish contract manufacturer Recipharm is selling its facilities in Solna, Strängnäs, Höganäs, Karlskoga and Uppsala OTC Development to US private equity company Blue Wolf Capital Partners.
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Settlement of cancer allegations against blockbuster drug
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has reached a principal agreement in the US on around 4,000 of the cases in which its now withdrawn blockbuster heartburn drug Zantac allegedly had caused cancer.
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Dansk-svenskt samarbete kring antibiotikaresistens i EU
Ett europeiskt referenslaboratorium för antibiotikaresistens ska etableras genom ett samarbete mellan Danmark och Sverige. Laboratoriet ska bidra med kunskap kring bland annat beredskap mot antibiotikaresistens.
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The life science strategy – what the industry wants
The process of updating the national life science strategy has begun at the government’s life science office. According to industry stakeholders, Sweden’s competitiveness, the accessibility of health data and the integration of innovation in healthcare
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”We need compatibility“
Penilla Gunther, founder of Fokus Patient and chair of the European Patient Safety Foundation, hopes that the forthcoming life science strategy will focus on efficient and secure management of patient data and equal access to medicines.
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Anna Törner: ”Orphan Designation – the "petite robe noire" of drug development”
It is easy to cling to various regulatory incentives, like orphan designation, and other expedited pathways, without understanding what they truly mean or whether they are indeed right (or wrong) for the current project, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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KI-forskare fälls för oredlighet efter felaktiga bilder
Fyra forskare med koppling till Karolinska institutet fälls för oredlighet i forskning, enligt ett beslut från NPOF, Nämnden för prövning av oredlighet i forskning.
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Björn Zoëgas nya jobb i Saudiarabien – ”Patienterna har ju samma behov”
Förre sjukhusdirektören vid Karolinska universitetssjukhuset Björn Zoëga har fått nytt jobb – som sjukhuschef i Saudiarabien.
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Venom from the deathstalker carries radiopharmaceuticals to the brain
In order to target cancerous brain tumours with radionuclides, the problematic blood-brain barrier must first be crossed. Life Science Sweden has visited a KI researcher who is trialling an unusual approach ‒ using scorpion venom.
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