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...

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

Assignment: Facilitate the retention of foreign researchers

A newly appointed public inquiry is to develop measures to make attracting and retaining foreign doctoral students and researchers in Sweden easier.

Novo Nordisk bygger ut för miljarder – räknar med att nyanställa 400

Tre nya anläggningar ska byggas och tidigare anläggningar ska byggas ut när Novo Nordisk ökar sin produktionskapacitet i Öresundsregionen.

Rising interest in CRISPR treatments

Treatments using CRISPR technology are emerging as one of the hottest medical trends in the United States – and the FDA is doing its best to promote the development.

Samuel Lagercrantz: Här är områdena där vi just nu ser medicinska genombrott

Life Science Swedens chefredaktör Samuel Lagercrantz listar tre medicinska fält där vi nu ser stora genombrott och två områden där det finns efterlängtade ljusglimtar.

AI-Driven Microscopy Image Analysis in Pharma and Biotech

Extract breakthrough discoveries from large, complex data sets.

Novo Nordisk donerar pengar till professur i diabetologi på KI

Karolinska institutet får en donation på 21 miljoner kronor till en professur i klinisk diabetologi från Novo Nordisk

Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse

The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala resear...

Novo Nordisk Foundation breddar innovationsprogram – nu kan hela Norden söka

Novo Nordisk Foundation öppnar nu upp för ansökningar från forskare i hela Norden inom ramen för sitt Distinguished Innovator-program. Totalt ska 60 miljoner da...

Settlement of cancer allegations against blockbuster drug

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has reached a principal agreement in the US on around 4,000 of the cases in which its now withdrawn blockbuster heartburn d...

Storbritannien har godkänt injektion för viktminskning

Storbritannien börjar med läkemedel för viktminskning för personer med kraftig fetma. Hälsomyndigheten har godkänt läkemedlet Ozempic (semaglutide) från danska Novo Nordisk som, tillsammans med livsstilsförändring, kan hjälpa överviktiga att minska sin...

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...

The first Lyme disease vaccine faces a delay

Pfizer and Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine, which could be the first of its kind, is facing delays of about a year. The reason is problems at trial sites in the ...

Svenska forskare utvecklar läkemedel mot fetma

Två tidigare godkända läkemedel utgör ingredienserna för ett nytt preparat mot fetma som Solnaföretaget Empros Pharma utvecklar.

CROs in drug development: "We use our expertise to speed up the process

Consultancy firms have become an increasingly important part of drug development. “It’s a trend and a business model that works, and we see no indication that i...

Novo Nordisk ansluter sig till MVA

Novo Nordisk Sverige vill genom medlemskapet stärka rekryteringsbasen och den kliniska forskningen i Sverige.

Small robots to deliver pharmaceuticals to the body

Robots that can operate inside the body and a platform that combines ultrasound with AI. These are a couple of the technologies that have qualified for a list t...

Bio-Works ska leverera till Novo Nordisk

Clean solutions - Handling viscose substances with precision

Laboratories in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food technology industries are increasingly relying on automation for sample preparation. The Mo...

Anna Törner: “My quantified life”

“The expression ‘you can’t see the forest for the trees’ feels newly relevant in the context of wearables. One can easily get caught up in the idea that the mor...

The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine

The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast ...

KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures

A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying...

ZEISS Microscope has been Optimized for Capturing Subcellular Structures and their Dynamics

Live imaging with uniform super-resolution in all spatial dimensions.