“Research is always a lot of failures and a few successes”

Gene therapies open up fantastic possibilities, but they are also extremely expensive to produce. Genenova aims to change that and make the treatments accessible to more people. “Our overall ambition is to reduce costs a hundredfold”, says professor Johan Rockberg at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Anna Törner: ”If I fall seriously ill, I’ll move to Finland”

”It is both undignified and undemocratic that cancer patients must travel to Finland to uphold a façade of fairness that does not truly exist”, Anna Törner writes in a column.

”The importance of stratification in a statistician’s August kitchen”

Ingrid Lönnstedt writes about an experiment of her own at home and about what lessons can be learned from it, in a science column.

Johan Pehrson takes over the responsibility for research policy in Sweden

The Liberals' party leader Johan Pehrson takes over the assignment as Minister for Education. This was announced by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) on Tuesday last week.

KI’s new super machine measures brain activity in real-time – “A very expensive hairdo”

Using brand-new, super-advanced equipment, researchers at Karolinska Institutet can now measure brain activity in real-time, with higher resolution than previously possible. “This opens up fantastic opportunities”, says brain researcher Daniel Lundqvist.

New report: Fewer PhDs in life sciences

A new report from Vinnova suggests that competency returns in the life science sector are declining.

“We need to keep investing in research and innovation”

Jenni Nordborg has worked for just over four years to highlight life science in Sweden. Her mandate as national coordinator ends in December 2022. ““Life sciences has been a long-term priority of governments since many years and I have no doubt that the ambitions will be strong going forward”, says Jenni Nordborg.

Anna Törner: Kalashnikovs in a new guise

Thanks to resisting European regulatory authorities, Europe has been spared the opioid epidemic. In the 1960s, the situation was the opposite as the American pharmaceutical authority, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), refused to approve thalidomide (Neurosedyn), writes Anna Törner in a column.

When carelessness, forgetfulness and coincidence become the researcher’s best friend

Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advances have come about thanks to completely random incidents and the open-mindedness of scientists who were ready to think outside the box.

Giulia Gaudenzi: Innovation for good

"I challenge the innovator landscape to take a mental leap. Relying on innovation-solely to end inequality is not enough, therefore consciously and purposively – we need to engage bravely with the politics of poverty and scarcity. Even in life sciences", writes Giulia Gaudenzi in a column.

Upcoming event: New updates on drugs

At Medicon Valley Alliance venues in Copenhagen/Örestad April 1 2020 the meeting New updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability takes place for the for the eighth time.

Substans i magisk svamp får genombrottsstatus

Den aktiva substansen i magic mushrooms får breakthrough-status hos FDA som behandling mot depression.

Follicum tar in 56 miljoner

Emission tar in flera högprofilerade investerare.

236 miljoner till forskningsinstrument

SSF delar ut drygt 236 miljoner kronor till 33 projekt för att främja utvecklingen av nya instrument, metoder och tekniker i forskningen.

Köper virtual reality-teknik

Brighter köper e-hälsoföretaget Division By Zero.

Product Specialist at Gradientech AB, Uppsala

Synthetic MR avtalar med GE

Imagingföretaget licensierar ut sin mjukvara för effektivisering av magnetisk resonanstomografi, MR, till GE Healthcare.

"Mer satsning på grundforskning kommer inte lösa problemen"

DEBATT. Att fortsätta på den inslagna vägen, vilken nu Astra Zeneca lämnar, kommer uppenbarligen inte att vara framgångsrik, skriver åtta representanter från akademin, och frågar: Vad gör vi istället?

Förändringsprocessen i läkemedelsindustrin har bara börjat

Läkemedelsindustrins glansdagar tog slut 1996. Hela branschen står inför stora utmaningar och processerna fram till ett nytt läkemedel kommer att förändras, skriver sex professorer, forskare och entreprenörer.

Chef för entreprenörskap blir docent

Boo Edgar, chef för Göteborg International Bioscience Business School, GIBBS, har fått en docentur vid Sahlgrenska Akademin. Han forskar kring entreprenörskap inom life science-sektorn.

Tolv genvarianter för diabetes upptäckta

I en stor europeisk studie med data från över 100 000 personer har forskare nu identifierat tolv genvarianter som påverkar socker- och insulinnivåerna. De hittade också en variant som ökar risken för typ 2-diabetes.

Hon ska utveckla unga entreprenörer

För några år sedan var hon själv student vid Göteborg International Bioscience Business School, GIBBS. Nu blir hon dess nya chef.

Bio-Linux goes global

Recently the NEBC Bio-Linux Version 5.0 was released, a one-stop shop for bioinformatics tools in a Linux context.