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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.

A surprising discovery about the immune system in cases of cancer

Professor Göran Jönsson is trying to understand why some patients benefit from immunotherapies while others don’t. A couple of years ago, he made a surprising d...

Novo Nordisk sues compounding pharmacies in the US

Novo Nordisk is suing compounding pharmacies in Florida, USA, because the company claims to have found impurities in the active ingredient in the obesity drug Wegovy.

A mass flow controller that is silent, fast and cost-effective

Portable ventilator breathing devices, bioreactors or the dosing of inert gases all rely on the highest control dynamics. That is exactly what the proportional ...

Study: Chat GPT is more empathetic than doctors

The AI tool Chat GPT is not only more accurate when it comes to answering patient questions – the chatbot is also perceived as almost 10 times more empathetic t...

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...

Redsense grundare har avlidit

Patrik Byhmer, grundare av Redsense Medical och aktiv i flera andra medicinteknikbolag, har avlidit.

Beta-blockers are often given unnecessarily, a study finds – “This will affect future practice”

Patients who have suffered a minor heart attack do not benefit from beta-blockers, according to a major new study that may change guidelines for cardiac care.

Large study on milk: Risky for women but not for men

The risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and acute myocardial infarction (MI) increased for women with milk intake levels higher than 2 glasses per day, while n...

Automated dispensing of a viscous hydrogel

A suitable solution developed for UPM Biomedicals In the Festo LifeTech Application Center we tested a setup for UPM Biomedicals for the automatic dispensing of...

Neogap vinner pris – satsar på internationell utveckling

Bioteknikföretaget Neogap har utsetts till vinnare av ett scale up-program som genomförs av Buisness Sweden.

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...

”We need compatibility“

Penilla Gunther, founder of Fokus Patient and chair of the European Patient Safety Foundation, hopes that the forthcoming life science strategy will focus on ef...

“Don’t postpone the transition to IVDR”

Operators who have not yet started to adapt to the requirements of the new EU IVDR regulation are running out of excuses. This is the opinion of Helena Dzojic, ...

Sweden is organising a large life science conference as part of the EU presidency

On 26-27 June, Sweden will host a European meeting on life science.

Egetis bekräftar budsamtal

Den svenska läkemedelsutvecklaren Egetis Therapeutics för diskussioner om ett potentiellt bud på bolaget. Det bekräftar företaget i en kommentar till ihärdiga r...

Branschens doldisar – kontraktsforskarna

Konsultbolagen har blivit en allt viktigare del av läkemedelsutvecklingen. ”Det är en trend och affärsmodell som fungerar, och vi ser inga tecken på att den kom...

Egetis lägger ned buddiskussionerna

Svenska läkemedelsutvecklaren Egetis Therapeutics har gått ut med att diskussionerna om ett potentiellt förvärv av företaget nu har lagts ner.

Unexpected study results on testosterone – no reduction in fracture risk

Testosterone treatment is known to increase bone density and bone quality. However, a study now suggests that supplementation with the male sex hormone does not...

Ingrid Lönnstedt: What does the p-value mean?

The smaller the better, and preferably smaller than 0.05. A p-value smaller than 5% means that the treatment effect is statistically significant at 5% significa...

Svensk studie ger ökat hopp om nasalt covidvaccin

Höga nivåer av antikroppar mot sars-cov-2-viruset i näsans slemhinna ger skydd mot covid-19-smitta i minst åtta månader, enligt en svensk studie. Resultaten ans...