New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability 2026

Raised millions to develop a treatment for ´butterfly children´

Fragile as a butterfly’s wing – that’s how people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa are usually described. The Lund-based company Xinnate recently raised SEK 10...

Eternal Rye – Improving Plant Breeding Methods

User story from Martin Luther University Halle.

A new malaria vaccine offers hope but much more research is still needed

There has long been no vaccine against malaria, but there have been breakthroughs in recent years. However, it is still unclear how we become immune to the mala...

Total pipeline of pharmaceutical companies reaches a record high – 22,921 medicines are currently being developed

Despite the difficult economic times, pharmaceutical companies have never developed as many new drugs as now.

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The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine

The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast ...

Settlement of cancer allegations against blockbuster drug

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has reached a principal agreement in the US on around 4,000 of the cases in which its now withdrawn blockbuster heartburn d...

Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse

The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala resear...

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Assignment: Facilitate the retention of foreign researchers

A newly appointed public inquiry is to develop measures to make attracting and retaining foreign doctoral students and researchers in Sweden easier.

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The Crucial Role of Core Imaging Facility Managers

User story from ZEISS and the University of York.

KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures

A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying...

”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...

Reliably gripping and turning small parts

The extremely compact rotary gripper module EHMD is the ideal choice in many life science applications where small objects need to be gripped and turned in conf...

Jan Holmgren to receive award for the development of cholera vaccine

Researcher Jan Holmgren is being awarded for the development of the first effective drinkable cholera vaccine. The award is given by the International Vaccine I...

The life science strategy – what the industry wants

The process of updating the national life science strategy has begun at the government’s life science office. According to industry stakeholders, Sweden’s compe...

AZ gets approval for drug targeting rare disease – it may reduce cortisone dependence

AstraZeneca’s drug Fasenra gets an expanded indication in the EU and is now approved as a treatment for the rare autoimmune disease known as Churg-Strauss syndrome.

Specific proposals and targets top the universities’ desired priorities

What are the universities’ expectations for the update of the national life science strategy? Life Science Sweden posed the question to representatives from Kar...

Tio life science-projekt får miljonanslag – ny utlysning öppnar

En rad life science-projekt har fått miljonanslag i ett svenskt proof of concept-program. 13 januari öppnar en ny utlysning.

Jättestudie om mjölk: Riskfyllt för kvinnor men inte för män

Risken för hjärtinfarkt ökade för kvinnor som i genomsnitt drack minst två glas mjölk om dagen, medan det hos män inte återfanns något sådant samband i en ny st...

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...