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Health politician Lina Nordquist: ”I find it hard to be idle”
She is the pharmacist and researcher who grew tired of the breakthroughs that never materialised and knowledge that never seemed to reach patients, so she decided to make a change from within. Life Science Sweden meets Lina Nordquist, Member of Parliament for the Liberals and their spokesperson on healthcare policy, to have a conversation about reality, politics, and the need for writing.
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Anna Törner: To kill your darlings
Hopes were high when Anna Törner and her colleague started a study on a dietary supplement that seemed unbelievably good. “Enthusiastically, we dreamed of exciting results and perhaps a publication in a high-impact journal,” she writes in a column.
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Cancerdödande protein förstärks – med hjälp av spindeltråd
Länge har stora förhoppningar knutits till proteinet p53 som behandling mot cancer, men problemet är att kroppens celler tillverkar det i för liten mängd och att det bryts ner för snabbt. Nu har forskare vid Karolinska institutet funnit en tänkbar lösning – med hjälp av ett stycke protein från spindeltråd.
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Spotify och vaccinbråket – detta har hänt
En superhajpad podcast, ett öppet brev från 270 amerikanska hälsoexperter och en protesterande gammal rockare med rutig flanellskjorta har toppat tidningar och nyhetssajter på sistone. Men vad var det egentligen som utlöste jättebråket och gjorde att Spotify på sina håll nu ses som ett hot mot folkhälsan?
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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.