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Glada miner över storsatsning – ”Kommer stärka Sveriges konkurrenskraft”
Regeringen har presenterat förslaget om en historiskt stor satsning på forskning och innovation. Life Science Sweden har samlat in reaktioner från branschen och akademin.
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Nobla kreationer symboliserar årets Nobelpris
Elever från första årskursen på Beckmans Designhögskola har gestaltat 2024 års Nobelpris. Här ser du hur de naturvetenskapliga priserna gestaltas. Kan du gissa vilket som är vilket?
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“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.
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In search of Marcel Proust's lost health
A great writer, but also a weak person and a hypochondriac. That has been the usual image of Marcel Proust. But the pediatrician and literary scholar Carl Lindgren paints a partly different picture in a new book about the French master's life, health and attitude towards physicians.
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Investigations against AstraZeneca: ”Chinese interests may be behind them”
Why are there several investigations against AstraZeneca employees in China right now? Life Science Sweden continues to seek answers.
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Drug development booms in Medicon Valley
When it comes to developing new medicines, the Öresund region is one of the top performers in the EU. Companies working on commission for pharmaceutical companies are highlighted as a success factor. “Everyone has heard of Novo Nordisk, but these companies are unknown to people outside the industry despite being the golden vein of the life science sector,” says Anette Steenberg, CEO of the cluster organisation MVA.
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”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.
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Her company is developing a new tablet form obesity drug
Obesity and diabetes are the primary targets of a new tablet treatment under development by Malmö-based Pila Pharma. The company’s ambition is to take on the billion-selling GLP1 analogues. ‘‘Basically, I expect all the beneficial effects that they have, but not the same side effect profile,’’ company founder Dorte X Gram said in an interview with Life Science Sweden.
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Scilifelabs nya direktör Jan Ellenberg: ”Spännande tid för life science”
I somras tillträdde Jan Ellenberg som ny direktör för Scilifelab. I en tv-intervju talar han om sin bakgrund, vikten av klustersamarbeten och sin tid som direktör för Scilifelab hittills.
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GSK pays 2.2 billion dollars to settle Zantac lawsuits
British drugmaker Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK, has struck a 2.2 billion dollar settlement, thereby resolving a vast majority of the liability cases pending against the company in the U.S. that alleged its discontinued drug Zantac caused cancer.
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Anna Törner: ”Mom, do you think you’ll ever get married again?”
”I realize I’m slowly descending into that familiar statistical rabbit hole, where life’s biggest uncertainties are reduced to point estimates and confidence intervals”, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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“We should avoid surgery if we can”
Since February this year, she has been Scientific Director Life Science at the Karolinska Institutet. Life Science Sweden met Anna Martling for a talk about role models, surgery and Sweden’s strengths and weaknesses in medical research.
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Danska läkemedelsfonder investerar i talangfabrik
Novo Nordisk Foundation, Lundbeck Foundation och Leo Foundation investerar 123 miljoner danska kronor, motsvarande omkring 188 miljoner svenska kronor, i ett nytt utbildningscentrum för Köpenhamns universitet och Syddansk universitet i Odense.
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Ingrid Lönnstedt: ”The confidence interval and its width”
Always keep an eye on the width of your and others’ confidence intervals, writes Ingrid Lönnstedt in a science column.
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Anna Törner: Yes, I Am Sick, But Not Weak
”People often say that someone who is ill only has one wish—to get better. But I think that is not true. Someone who is ill also longs to be understood, to be respected, to not have their identity overshadowed by their condition”, writes Anna Törner in a column.
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The investor: “The major common diseases are hot again”
She has previously been voted Investor of the Year and will now be moderating The Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science congress. We check the temperature of the industry with Nina Rawal from Trill Impact Advisory.
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Thumbs down for lecanemab in the EU – “Very surprised”
The Azheimer's drug lecanemab has received a negative assessment from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), according to an announcement made by the Agency last week. Bioarctic’s CEO Gunilla Osswald describes the reactions after the announcement as a surprise and disappointment.
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Healthcare study: Alzheimer’s blood test shows high accuracy
A blood test for identifying Alzheimer’s has now been tested in the general healthcare setting. According to the researchers, the test was 90% accurate in making a diagnosis.
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Vårens krönikor i Life Science Sweden
Reflektioner och insikter från branschprofiler och experter är en viktig del av Life Science Sweden. Inför sommaruppehållet tipsar vi om några av de krönikor och debattartiklar som LSS publicerat under vintern och våren som varit.
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Jan Ellenberg blir ny direktör för Scilifelab
Scilifelab har utsett en ny direktör – Jan Ellenberg. Han efterträder Olli Kallioniemi och blir samtidigt även professor vid Karolinska institutet.
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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 shaped his desire to help the vulnerable in society.
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Anna Törner: ”Me Tarzan, you Jane, nä det funkar inte längre!”
”Kanske det är dags att sluta att prata om manliga och kvinnliga egenskaper och istället referera till människor som handlingskraftiga, analyserande, inlyssnande och strategiska? Helt utan referens till kromosomuppsättning?”, skriver Anna Törner i en krönika.
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Lämnar tankesmedjan efter åtta år: ”Oerhört inspirerande att driva på innovation”
Catharina Barkman har under åtta år drivit den oberoende tankesmedjan Forum för Health Policy. I slutet av sommaren går hon vidare till nya utmaningar och nu blickar hon tillbaka på tiden, uppdragen och på hur svensk hälso- och sjukvård har utvecklats.
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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 in the Netherlands developed an innovative method, the thrombin generation assay (TGA), which provides a complete overview of a physiological process crucial for maintaining normal haemostasis.
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