Life science trends 2025 – Part 1 obesity drugs

More obesity drugs are being launched this year following Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's previous successes with GLP-1 drugs. But the next big breakthrough in obe...

Swedish pavilion with healthcare companies at Ukraine fair – “Ukraine is being rebuilt right now”

Private companies and public authorities are both needed in the reconstruction of Ukraine, said Minister for Health Care, Acko Ankarberg Johansson, in her openi...

AI automates testing of implant coatings

The medical technology group Smith+Nephew uses an AI-supported light microscope ZEISS Axio Imager to inspect coated implants.

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...

On the hunt for high throughput diagnostics

Global diagnostics companies and laboratories are in a race against time to adapt testing capacity to current demand. Due to the global COVID 19 pandemic, the d...

Partial court victory for entrepreneur who lost his company

Swedish life science entrepreneur Mikael Kubista has won the first round against a law firm that he, along with other co-owners, sued for negligent advice in co...

Lilly recruits top Swedish researcher in Alzheimer´s

One of Sweden's leading Alzheimer's researchers, Oskar Hansson, has been recruited by pharma giant Eli Lilly and will be moving to the USA.

Vaccinbolag backade när Trump nominerade vaccinskeptiker

Flera av de stora vaccinbolagen föll på börsen efter att vaccinskeptikern Robert F. Kennedy Jr. på torsdagen nominerats till posten som hälsominister i Donald T...

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...

Automated opening and closing of sample vials

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Sofia Wallström is Lif's new CEO

Sofia Wallström has been appointed as the new CEO of the industry organization Lif, the trade association for the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Sweden.

19 medicines in Sweden are under investigation in a major EMA inquiry

19 medicines marketed in Sweden are affected by an ongoing extensive European investigation into suspected fraud at an Indian contract research organisation. Among them are medicines for HIV, epilepsy, cancer and Parkinson’s, which may be withdrawn...

Hypothesis testing versus conspiracy theory

"How do you know what is a conspiracy theory and what is a reasonable, scientifically based conclusion?" In a column, Ingrid Lönnstedt reflects on this question.

Column: ”Life as a F1 race”

"The F1 car makes several pit stops during a race and during a lifetime the human being may also have to come in several times for maintenance", Björn Ursing wr...

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...

Rickard Sandberg on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: ”A key discovery”

The discovery that paved the way for the development of todays mRNA vaccines is the basis for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Xbrane enters licensing agreement with Indian generics giant

Swedish biosimilar developer Xbrane Biopharma and the Indian company Intas Pharmaceuticals have entered into a license and co-development agreement.

Novo Nordisk to invest billions in new quality control lab

Novo Nordisk has announced plans to invest 2.9 billion Danish kroner in order to establish a new quality control laboratory in Hillerød in northern Zealand, Denmark.

600 million SEK for life science - "Should not be the country of moderation"

Sweden will prioritize excellence over breadth in research. This was made clear when the government presented the research proposition for the next four years.

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