ZEISS Insights: Measurement of bone plates and screws

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Pfizer slutar sälja uppmärksammad genterapi

Pfizer kommer att avbryta utvecklingen och försäljningen av sin uppmärksammade och extremt dyra genterapi mot blödarsjuka, Beqvez. Orsaken uppges vara bristande efterfrågan.

EMA-granskning bekräftar risk för ny cancer efter CAR-T

CAR-T-terapier mot cancer kan i sällsynta fall ge upphov till sekundära cancersjukdomar. Det slås nu fast av den europeiska läkemedelsmyndigheten EMA, som kräve...

Nordic Regulatory experts: Improving biotech chances of Succ

Why is it that so many biotech companies fail? And what are the tools needed to change that fact?

Reveal the Structures and Functions of Life

Super-resolution microscopes from ZEISS.

Column: ”Cheating with pea flowers and does it matter whether you are right?”

Is it possible to forgive shortcuts or outright cheating in science - if it turns out that the researcher was ultimately right? Anna Törner discuss this topic in a column.

Venom from the deathstalker carries radiopharmaceuticals to the brain

In order to target cancerous brain tumours with radionuclides, the problematic blood-brain barrier must first be crossed. Life Science Sweden has visited a KI r...

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Marie Gårdmark: “What to expect from Trump’s second term?”

One may complain about the complex multinational system in EU, but it gives us some predictability that cannot be easily overturned by different member states p...

Vykat XR – ny pillerbehandling mot omåttlig aptit

FDA har godkänt den första behandlingen för en genetisk störning som bland annat präglas av omåttlig aptit.

This years Nobel prize in medicine – “Changed the understanding of how genes are controlled”

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the discovery that small RNA molecules, known as microRNAs, control how genes are regulated. Understan...

KI-studie: Blodprov kan förutspå och utesluta framtida demens

Förekomsten av vissa biomarkörer i blodet kan förutsäga utvecklingen av demens upp tio år innan en faktisk diagnos ställs, enligt en ny studie vid Karolinska institutet.

Nytt initiativ ska ge bättre ögonhälsa

Flera intressenter har samlats bakom ett förslag att ta fram en nationell ögonstrategi. Förhoppningen är att regeringen redan nästa år ska hörsamma förslaget.

Italian pharmaceutical company buys rights to immunotherapy from Sanofi

Italy's Recordati buys the rights to a treatment for the rare autoimmune disease cold agglutinin disease (CAD).

Unexpected study results on testosterone – no reduction in fracture risk

Testosterone treatment is known to increase bone density and bone quality. However, a study now suggests that supplementation with the male sex hormone does not reduce the risk of fractures, but rather increases it. The researchers behind the study were...

KI-studie: Nässköljning kunde ge information om KOL

Förekomsten av ett visst protein i näsan kunde användas som underlag för bedömning av KOL, i en ny studie från forskare vid Karolinska institutet.

MSD discontinues two Keytruda trials

MSD has stopped two late-stage trials that tested its blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda as a treatment for skin and lung cancer.

Pneumatics Makes a Technological Leap with Piezo

The first high-precision proportional valve terminal VTEP opens up new application areas

The first drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s – but what does it mean for patients?

New treatments for early Alzheimer’s are bringing hope to thousands of patients and their families. The question is, who will get the treatment, how will the ri...

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 1...

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 in...

Founder of Bioarctic, Lars Lannfelt, is honoured: “I want to create something for the future”

It´s like a scientist’s dream: to be the world’s first with a drug that genuinely affects one of our major diseases. Lars Lannfelt and his company Bioarctic hav...

Automated nitrogen analysis reduces costs per sample

N-Realizer analytical system from C. Gerhardt increases productivity with valve block from Festo

Affärscoachen: ”Vi behöver lära oss av våra misstag”

Det senaste året har varit tufft för många biotechbolag med flera företag som gått omkull. Hur kan konkurs undvikas? Pia Keyser, affärscoach på Umeå Biotech Inc...