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“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.
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Nanoparticles to help detect pulmonary disease
Nanoparticles behave in a certain way in the air. Using this knowledge, researchers at Lund University have developed a new measurement method for lung examinat...
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Anna Törner: Success requires bold decisions!
“Doing things right is fine, but doing the right things as soon as possible is even better”, writes Anna Törner in a column.
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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?
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Paolo Macchiarini in court – “The sole intent was to cure”
Paolo Macchiarini’s surgical procedure was illegal, life-threatening and caused severe and prolonged suffering to patients the prosecution claimed when the tria...
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Neanderthal genes and Nobel Prize in a popular lecture at Bioscience
An inherited gene variant from our ”evolutionary cousins” – the extinct Neanderthals – may affect how our bodies break down certain drugs. “It’s only a matter o...
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Studie: Därför kan män vara sämre på att bekämpa virusinfektioner
Forskning har visat att hur allvarligt vår kropp reagerar på en virusinfektion kan bero på vårt kön. Men varför könen bekämpar virusinfektioner olika bra har ti...
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Swedish breakthrough in Alzheimer’s: “We can finally present great data”
Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are currently among the hottest topics in drug development. Two Swedish research companies with high ambitions and successes ...
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The first vaccine derived from cowpox
The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the ...
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Life science blir "death science" i nya Bond
I den senaste Bondfilmen, "No time to die", har filmskaparna tagit steget in i biologi och genforskning. Life science har aldrig varit dödligare...
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The impact of the recession on the Swedish medtech sector
We need health care regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, but the current recession also affects the Medtech sector.
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Nobelpristagaren Torsten Wiesel fyller 100: ”Gamla gubbar som jag ska använda erfarenheten till att hjälpa de unga”
Året var 1955 när en ung Torsten Wiesel hoppade på båten till USA och inledde en sagolik karriär som hjärnforskare med ett Nobelpris som kronan på verket. Nu fy...
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Now it’s settled: The International Vaccine Institute will be located in Stockholm
The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, is establishing itself outside South Korea for the first time. Last week, the Swedish Parliament ratified the agreemen...
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Hello Angelica Loskog!
Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Angelica Loskog and interviews her about her life as a researcher.
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Inom 2 tim ska Apotekets kunder ha läkemedlet
Apotekets marknadsdirektör Eric Lundberg meddelade en tuff nyhet för nätapoteken. Nu ska kunderna ha sina läkemedel de beställer på nätet, inom två timmar.
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Study: Our behaviour may have been guided by wishful thinking during the pandemic
A new study suggests that we systematically underestimate health risks if and when it suits us. This was especially true during the pandemic, as our risk assess...
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Event: Drug Development – Serendipity or Science
Drug development is a challenging journey, we will discuss questions you may not even consider asking. SDS and Medicon Village welcome you to an engaging afternoon.
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Lucy Robertshaw: Artificial intelligence – is this really going to transform a patient’s life?
In a column Lucy Robertshaw reflects on how AI and new regulations will affect healthcare, innovation and the lives of future patients.
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Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients
In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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Behandling som skjuter upp diabetes typ 1 godkänd i USA – "Historiskt ögonblick"
Den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA har godkänt en behandling som fördröjer utbrottet av typ 1-diabetes, och därmed kan bespara patienter åratal av insuli...
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New diagnostic rules raise concerns
In a panel discussion, several voices from academia and the industry expressed concerns about the transition to the new regulatory framework for in-vitro diagno...
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Major advances in IVF labs in the last few decades
Since the introduction of in vitro fertilisation several decades ago, many developments have been made in the field, and the main part of that development has t...
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New rules for diagnostic products, but who will certify them? “An extreme shortage area”
In less than two weeks, new and stricter EU rules will enter into force for thousands of products used in important diagnoses of, among other things, cancer and...
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The first pharmaceutical for eosinophilic esophagitis approved in the U.S.
The U.S. Drug Administration has approved the drug Dupixent (dupilumab) to treat inflammation of the oesophagus of the type eosinophil esophagitis.