GSK pays 2.2 billion dollars to settle Zantac lawsuits

British drugmaker Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK, has struck a 2.2 billion dollar settlement, thereby resolving a vast majority of the liability cases pending against t...

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...

Study: Popular diabetes treatment is not associated with thyroid cancer

Concerns raised about an association between GLP-1 analogues, used to treat diabetes and obesity, and an increased risk of thyroid cancer are not supported by a...

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...

Gothenburg, the city of life science – We are ‘Little Boston’

Western Sweden is investing in life science within everything from advanced therapeutic drugs to femtech. At the same time, stakeholders are looking to other in...

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An increasing number of people are falling ill with TBE – “Much more research is needed”

Tick-borne meningitis, or TBE, is an increasingly common disease in Sweden. Currently, there is a vaccine against the disease but no drugs. Researcher Anna Över...

AstraZeneca to use American AI platform for cancer trials

In a collaboration AstraZeneca will use an AI model from Israeli-American biotech Immunai to streamline its clinical trials in cancer.

Osäkerhet kring IVF-reform i USA – svenskt bolag backar

Vita huset backar från Donald Trumps vallöfte om att öka tillgången till fertilitetsbehandlingar. Svenskt medicinteknikbolaget faller ytterligare efter beskedet.

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GSK i stort Kinasamarbete – ska utveckla ett dussin nya läkemedel

Den brittiska läkemedelsjätten GSK har tecknat ett stort samarbetsavtal med kinesiska Hengrui Pharma om utveckling av upp till 12 nya läkemedel.

This years Nobel prize in medicine – “Changed the understanding of how genes are controlled”

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the discovery that small RNA molecules, known as microRNAs, control how genes are regulated. Understan...

New large lab building in Lund inaugurated – here are the companies moving in

Medicon Village has received a new laboratory building. On Friday last week the building was inaugurated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by Minister for Employme...

Lista: Årets mest framstående medicinska uppfinningar

Den subkutana formen av det svenskutvecklade alzheimerläkemedlet Leqembi lyfts fram när Time presenterar sin årliga lista över de bästa uppfinningarna 2025.

Ännu ett genterapibolag skär ned – avbryter sitt främsta program

Även amerikanska Prime Medicine får nu känna på de snåla vindar som blåser inom genredigeringområdet. Bolaget avbryter sitt enda kliniska program, säger upp var...

Controlled Pneumatics: pushing the boundaries of pneumatics

Pressure, flow rate and movement can now be controlled very precisely, and with exactly the energy actually required. Controlled Pneumatics is the combination o...

Product demo with features, software and best-practices

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Major investment in women’s health – for a more equal healthcare system

”The regional differences need to decrease and the long-term supply of midwives and other professions needs to be secured,” write Acko Ankarberg Johansson and D...

Recipharm divests five Swedish plants

Swedish contract manufacturer Recipharm is selling its facilities in Solna, Strängnäs, Höganäs, Karlskoga and Uppsala OTC Development to US private equity compa...

Anna Törner: ”Mom, do you think you’ll ever get married again?”

”I realize I’m slowly descending into that familiar statistical rabbit hole, where life’s biggest uncertainties are reduced to point estimates and confidence in...

Festo Expands its Portfolio with Multilayer Manifolds

Manufacturers of medical and laboratory equipment now receive solutions from a single source

Acquisition of consulting company Key2Compliance

The Swedish company Key2Compliance, offering services in fields such as pharma and Medtech, has been acquired by German GBA Group.

Helsingborgsbolaget Aqilion utvecklar läkemedel mot eosinofil esofagit – fann drömsubstansen i Danmark

När Aqilion började utveckla ett läkemedel mot eosinofil esofagit klassades molekylen som ett särläkemedel. Men förekomsten av sjukdomen tycks nu öka.“Vi behövd...