Novo Nordisk establishes new factory in Denmark

Novo Nordisk establishes a new production facility in Odense, Denmark, an investment of 8.5 billion Danish kroner.

Did you know that not every sphere is really a round sphere?

ZEISS Metrology Expert Tip.

WuXi AppTec, UK Ltd

Pneumatics Makes a Technological Leap with Piezo

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

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.

Uppsala-based company wins important patent dispute – but the decision is subject to appeal

A US district court has ruled in favour of Orexo in a dispute over the patent protecting the Swedish company’s drug Zubsolv, developed for treating patients wit...

Looking for greater Nordic cooperation – “We have Norway and Finland in our sights”

How can Medicon Valley Alliance bring the big pharmaceutical companies back to the organisation? Life Science Sweden discussed this topic and others with the cl...

CTC Clinical Trial Consultants AB

NorthX Biologics Matfors AB

Failed to read the fine print – lost his life’s work

A celebrated CEO and co-founder of a pioneering lab company one moment – the next, fired, kicked out and written out of the company’s history. This is the story...

Study: Popular diabetes treatment is not associated with thyroid cancer

Concerns raised about an association between GLP-1 analogues, used to treat diabetes and obesity, and an increased risk of thyroid cancer are not supported by a...

Eli Lilly requests re-examination of Alzheimer's drug recommendation

Eli Lilly has requested that the EMA re-examine its opinion on the company's Alzheimer's drug, Kisunla, the agency announced on Friday.

This is the future location of the new national innovation cluster

Mölndal and Goco Health Innovation City will be the site of a new national innovation cluster for advanced therapies. The business community and the Swedish gov...

Studie: Upptäckt om tarmceller ger hopp om att bromsa Crohns sjukdom

Forskare vid Göteborgs universitet har upptäckt ett nytt sätt att angripa Crohns sjukdom. Det handlar om att reparera tarmcellernas skyddsbarriär för att behandla sjukdomen.

Ukraine war fuels rise of totally resistent bacteria

War-torn Ukraine is not just suffering from hostile attacks from a foreign aggressor, but also from the threat of a totally resistant and contagious bacteria.

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An increasing number of people are falling ill with TBE – “Much more research is needed”

Tick-borne meningitis, or TBE, is an increasingly common disease in Sweden. Currently, there is a vaccine against the disease but no drugs. Researcher Anna Över...

”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.

Novo Nordisk to invest billions in new quality control lab

Novo Nordisk has announced plans to invest 2.9 billion Danish kroner in order to establish a new quality control laboratory in Hillerød in northern Zealand, Denmark.

Cytel Inc acquires the SDS Group

The multinational statistical software developer and contract research organization Cytel Inc, headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, acquires the Swedish consult...

Stockholm and Uppsala jointly form a life science cluster

Stockholm and Uppsala are strengthening cooperation in medical research and biotech.

Kompauto Nordic AB

“An entire industry is about to be wiped out”

According to Jennie Ekbeck, CEO of Umeå Biotech Incubators, Sweden risks not having any small diagnostic companies left in five years.

Obesity-drug pioneers win Lasker Award

This year’s Lasker Prize in Clinical Research has been awarded to three researchers for their discoveries in GLP-1-based drugs that, according to the jury, “hav...