Norwegian describes scrapie gene

Intestinal lymphatic tissue is important for the absorption and spread of the scrapie prion, suggests a Norwegian researcher.

Ryssland satsar på klinisk forskning

Ryska Quintiles och statlig kapitalfond samarbetar i ny hälsoplan som ska sätta landets kliniska forskning på världskartan.

Product Specialist at Gradientech AB, Uppsala

Biotech goes white and bright

White biotech could become Denmark's next blossoming business area.

Showroom for free

The latest equipment with trained staff. Sci Life Lab in Stockholm want to offer top conditions at the new imaging laboratory. But some vendors are skeptical to...

Snedfördelning av Europeiska forskningsrådets anslag

Risk för "brain drain" inom Europa enligt polsk professor.

Cate Poulsen, Qiagen

Why are you going to Scanlab and Biotech Forum?

EU har siktet på Lundbeck

EU-kommissionen kommer att granska om den danska läkemedelsjätten har brutit mot EUs regler för konkurrens. Granskningen gäller hur Lundbeck har agerat kring ge...

Academia - a strong player on the lab market

While the industry was short of money during the financial crisis, government incentives were in full swing in Sweden during 2009. - Our sales to academia incre...

Upp och ner under det andra kvartalet

Astrazeneca, Probi och Recipharm är några av de bolag som visade upp positiva rapporter från det andra kvartalet i juli månad. Sämre gick det bland annat för Orexo.

With their hands on the legal levers

It is wonderful news for the Scandinavian scientific community. At the end of May it stood clear that Lund will host to the European Spallation Source.

Dako appoints new CEO

The Danish cancer therapeutic company Dako has appointed a new CEO after Patrik Dahlén.

SDU professor helps EU

Mette Præst Knudsen from the University of Southern Denmark, SDU, has been appointed as an expert member in an EU politics group.

Seminar program Biotech Forum

Here is the entire seminar program at Biotech Forum September 28-29th

Medtech giant separates

Due to the global economic situation, the medtech companies Q-Med and the Palomar Medical Technologies has terminated its international agreement.

Novo och Astra ligger bra till i internationell kraftmätning

Patentutgångar kommer under de närmaste åren att drabba flera stora läkemedelsbolag, men Astrazeneca och Novo Nordisk hör till de som skymtar ljusglimtar enligt en analys.

Orexo opens doors eastwards

The drug delivery company has signed a deal for selling a cancer pain treatment in China. "An ideal partner for us" says Torbjörn Bjerke, CEO of Orexo.

Life science management for hire

Do you need help getting your biotech company off and running? Camoleon is a new type of consultant that offers help with business and innovation management and...

Laboratory food

VWR exhibits laboratory tools with molecular gastronomy Rotary evaporators and magnetic stirrers - for making food. VWR tries out new ways for the exhibition at...

Parnevik firm in Swiss osteoporosis deal

The golf legend Jesper Parnevik's drug delivery firm EffRx has signed a license agreement with Nycomed for a new drug against osteoporosis.

Eli Lilly writes biotech fine history

The American biotech company Eli Lilly will pay US 1.415 billion to resolve allegations of off-label promotion of a dementia drug.

Nytt fetmaläkemedel kan godkännas i USA

Risken för hjärtpåverkan talar emot en bred långtidsanvändning.

Viktig fetma-marknad

Läkemedel som ger en viktminskning på minst fem procent och samtidigt är säkert har klar blockbuster-potential

”Alla skriker efter talang”

Att locka till sig begåvningarna är en av life science-branschens stora framtidsutmaningar. Det var en av slutsatserna i det panelsamtal som avslutade konferensen New Horizons in Biologics & Bioprocessing på torsdagen....