Astra Zeneca dumpar projekt inom blodsjukdomar – tar miljardsmäll

Astra Zeneca lägger ner ett läkemedelsprojekt inom sällsynta blodsjukdomar och tar en avsevärd ekonomisk smäll: en nedskrivning på 753 miljoner dollar, motsvara...

Astra Zeneca's Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria is being withdrawn worldwide

AstraZeneca initiates a worldwide withdrawal of its Covid vaccine Vaxzevria. The measure is taken just months after the company admitted the vaccine can cause a...

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.

Thomas Eldered: ”Innovation is the key”

Thomas Eldered speaks in a web clip about the challenges facing the life science sector in the future and what he, as an investor, finds most interesting in new companies.

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...

Anna Törner: ”Orphan Designation – the "petite robe noire" of drug development”

It is easy to cling to various regulatory incentives, like orphan designation, and other expedited pathways, without understanding what they truly mean or wheth...

The dock that “thinks” for itself

stations. In the process, cross-contamination can occur and dust can be released. The AZO CleanDock prevents this problem. Its latest generation can do even mor...

Conjugate Planes in Microscopy

Knowledge Article from ZEISS.

It-professor om Millennium: ”Högst förutsägbar katastrof”

Redan från början var regionen fel ute kring Millennium. Det menar Olle Lidbom, som skrivit boken om den skandalomsusade Skolplattformen. Han får medhåll av it-...

Thumbs down for lecanemab in the EU – “Very surprised”

The Azheimer's drug lecanemab has received a negative assessment from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), acc...

Merck KGaA acquires American company in €3.0 billion deal

Germany’s Merck is completing the acquisition of Springwork Therapeutics for 3 billion euros.

Standardisation in automation

B. Braun Melsungen had a great idea and implemented it throughout the plant. Production for infusion solutions was to be largely standardised. B. Braun hoped th...

Save the dates: ZEISS Quality Innovation Summit, October 22-24

Embark on a journey to the future of metrology.

Samuel Lagercrantz: We are currently seeing medical breakthroughs in these areas

Samuel Lagercrantz, Editor in Chief of Life Science Sweden, lists three medical fields in which we are currently seeing major breakthroughs and two fields in wh...

“We are Europe’s hotspot in life science”

The Medicon Valley Alliance has worked for competence development in life science in Denmark and Sweden for a quarter of a century. Anette Steenberg, CEO, sees ...

Anna Törner: Vem betalar för Rebecca Doe – och alla oss andra?

Det lätt att vänja sig vid tanken att vård och läkemedel är gratis, när det egentligen handlar om hur och vem som betalar. Det skriver Anna Törner i en krönika.

Anna Törner: The clinical trial – Periscope to reality

What happens to the patients in the clinical trial is not very interesting, writes Anna Törner in a column.

Decades of research destroyed at KI – a hacker attack cannot be ruled out!

Years of research, together with half a billion Swedish krona, went up in smoke when the freezers at Karolinska Institutet overheated. The breakdown has now bee...

”Läkemedelstillverkare måste tänka om kring cybersäkerhet”

Läkemedelsföretagen har blivit en allt vanligare måltavla för cyberattacker, inte minst från statsstödda grupper. Därför behöver branschen fokusera om för att m...

SupraCube - In life Science

Superconductors must be permanently kept below their transition temperature for levitation. Because of the integrated cooler, applications with superconductors ...

Eternal Rye – Improving Plant Breeding Methods

User story from Martin Luther University Halle.

WuXi AppTec, UK Ltd

ZEISS introduces the new Smartzoom 100

The future of digital microscopy for efficient optical inspections.

ZEISS Quality Innovations at CONTROL

May 6-9, 2025 in Stuttgart.