Gen minskar risk för KOL och astma

En internationell studie visar att både risken för KOL och barnastma minskar hos personer med en viss genvariant. Forskarna bakom studien tror på nya och bättre läkemedel som ett resultat av forskningen.

Relax at the After Fair

Round off the first day of the fair by visiting the After Fair. You can reload with entertainment from talented artists such as Patrik Isaksson, The Gentlemen and Ellinor Asp and take the opportunity to mingle with old and new aquaintances.

Partnering offer for scientists and medics

For the first time in the history of Biotech Forum, scientists and medics are invited to join the partnering event. I

Filter tips for safer pipetting and better accuracy

Biohit has launched new Safetyspace Filter Tips that have more space between the sample and the filter than conventional filter tips usually have.

75 million for research schools

Gothenburg University, Karolinska Institutet, Linköping University and Umeå University have received SEK 75 million from the Research Council. The money will be used to build five national clinical research schools. The research schools will receive 15

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.

Platform for high security virus purification

Millipore Corporation has introduced the Viresolve Pro Solution system, a new system for purification of viruses. The technology in the new platform includes a novel patent pending membrane.

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.

A crash course in IP strategy

"Publish, publish, publish!" Sound familiar? So to meet the researcher's wishes, do you scribble a patent application with lipstick on a napkin and send it in? At the seminar Patent Strategies in the Biotech Company, you will have the chance to find out why this might not be the best idea.

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.

How to get the most out of the fair

Sverige rustar för influensapandemi

Socialstyrelsen ser nu över distributionsvägarna för läkemedel med anledning av det uppgraderade beredskapsläget för svininfluensa i världen. Det kan uppstå en brist på vaccin men gemene man behöver inte vara orolig enligt Socialstyrelsen.

Högkänslig spektrometer via USB

Den nya Deep UV Maya200 Pro är en tvådimensionell FFT-CCD spektrometer från Ocean Optics som används med fördel för högkänslig fluorescensdetektion.

Mediciner i svenska vatten en hälsofara

Även de låga halter av olika läkemedel som finns i svenska vattendrag ökar inflammationen i mänskliga celler.

Hoppfullt för hiv-läkemedel

En nyligen avslutad studie av en antikroppsterapi visar på positiva resultat.

Athera signs production partnership

The companys novel cardiovascular product will be manufactured in Germany.

Test if you carry the fat virus

In a soon future there may be a quick and simple test that could show if you are infected with Ad-36, a human adenovirus that can make you over-weight.

Lundbeck divests companies

The company sells all shares in one listed company plus divests four small private equity funds, for a three-figured million sum.

Success fee to Bioinvent and partner

The cancer collaboration started last year. After successful technology transfer the two partner companies now receives 5 million euro from pharma giant Roche.

Pfizer lays a chunky bid on Wyeth

The merger of two pharma giants is the largest industry deal so far this year. Pfizer will acquire Wyeth in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $68 billion. The Boards of Directors of both companies have said yes to the deal that may lead to lay-offs of some 8,000 persons.

Biotage is regrouping

The Swedish company Biotage takes yet another step in streamlining efforts, by outsourcing all instrument production to contract manufacturers.

Metabolic pro heads prefect post

The dean of the Department of Biomedicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy has appointed a new assistant prefect.

Think outside the... brain

Riitta Hari from the Brain Research Unit at the Helsinki University of Technology has recently stated that the mind is more than just the brain.

Transatlantic cooperation for healthier food

Danish and American scientists are going to work together to find ways to fight malnutrition and life style disease like obesity in the western world.