Startup-bolaget vill bli nästa Olink

Inte ens ett år gamla har Rarity Bioscience fått anslag från Swelife och Medtech4health. Nu hoppas vd:n Linus Bosaeus att deras teknik för detektion av mutation...

Study: An objective diagnosis of constant tinnitus may be possible

A new method that measures brain activity during sound stimulation can make it possible to objectively diagnose and identify people who suffer from constant tin...

Göran Stiernstedt: “We are the world’s worst at continuity”

Failed investments in primary care, an unreasonable system with online doctors and a public failure at coordinating the healthcare IT system. Göran Stiernstedt ...

Giulia Gaudenzi: Innovation for good

"I challenge the innovator landscape to take a mental leap. Relying on innovation-solely to end inequality is not enough, therefore consciously and purposively ...

Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”

It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless differ...

Inga spår av coronavirus när Londons tunnelbana undersöktes

En nyligen genomförd stickprovsundersökning i Londons tunnelbana visade inga spår av sars-cov-2.

How critical are the “Spermageddon” reports? – Researchers call for action

A much talked about meta-study indicates that sperm concentration in men’s seminal fluid has halved in 40 years. Experts in andrology that Life Science Sweden s...

Pilots want to live too

Norrländsk life science går för högtryck

Pharma Outsourcing igång på Stockholm Waterfront

Astra Zeneca pausar test av covid-vaccin

Skälet till att företaget tillfälligt stoppar sina kliniska prövningar med vaccinet är att en studiedeltagare fått en sjukdom och det ska utredas om det finns n...

From spin-off to phase II

”The people there will basically become your new colleagues” – Carina Schmidt, former CEO of Athera, about working with different contractors.

A green nursery for biotech rooted in the Scanian soil

Red Glead has established itself as one of Lund’s largest companies in pharmaceutical development. Life Science Sweden went to Skåne and met two of the founders...

Björn Arvidsson: ”We need to change perspective”

If you say “life science” to a person on the street and ask them to explain what it is, you will probably get no good answer. The same question to your network ...

Krönika: Can regulators keep up with innovation?

New technology has increased the understanding of disease mechanisms and enabled approval of products targeting small but specific patient populations; sometime...

The perfect formula for decision-making

No one has the luxury not to take a decision, writes Helena Strigård at Swedenbio.

WuXi AppTec, UK Ltd

Hon tar plats på Gullers

Tina Österlind är ny strategisk rådgivare inom medicin och hälsa på kommunikationsbyrån.

Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?

When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely e...

Lockdown-studie kritiseras även i USA

I USA har den uppmärksammade metastudie som uppger att knappt några liv har räddats med hjälp av lockdowns blivit kraftigt ifrågasatt av forskare.

Här är virusvarianterna du ska ha koll på

Glöm den brittiska, sydafrikanska och indiska varianten. Efter att flera länder klagat beslutade WHO om nya namn på olika muterade coronavirus.

CAR-T therapies give continued hope: “Almost half of the patients have become disease-free”

When the first CAR-T therapies appeared, hopes were raised for the effective treatment for critically ill cancer patients. After a somewhat sluggish start, abou...

Astra Zeneca och Gilead kan gå samman

De två läkemedelsjättarna är i samtal om en sammanslagning, enligt källor till Bloomberg.

Petter Hartman: Prioritera kommunikationen om forskning!

Vad fan får jag för pengarna? Forskning bör vara ett svar på den frågan, anser Petter Hartman.