Individual DNA passport could result in fewer drug side effects

You may be required to show a DNA passport when you pick up medicines at the pharmacy in the future. According to a new study, patients might suffer 30% fewer s...

Konkurrenskraft, cancervård och MDR – läs krönikörernas tankar om branschen

Nya tankegångar, åsikter och framtidsvisioner från profiler i branschen, tillika krönikörer i Life Science Sweden och vår systertidning Medtech Magazine. Här ha...

Valves with piezo technology

Efficient control and regulation of gases in medical technology

Just four weeks to a concept for an emergency ventilator

The lockdown in spring 2020 meant that the majority of Festo employees had to join the ranks of those working from home. Yet within the space of just four weeks...

Rickard Sandberg om årets Nobelpris i medicin: ”En nyckelupptäckt”

Upptäckten som banade väg för utvecklingen av dagens mRNA-vacciner ligger till grund för årets Nobelpris i fysiologi eller medicin.

Anders Blanck about his 17 years at Lif: “The industry is enjoying greater public trust now"

The announcement came as a surprise to those around him, but according to the protagonist himself, the timing was excellent. Anders Blanck is now leaving Lif – ...

Marie Gårdmark: Potential step change – EU regulators get to play with data

A new pilot from EMA is starting in September to assess wether the analysis of 'raw data' by regulatory authorities improves the evaluation of marketing approva...

Serendipity går in som storägare i Link

Det norska kontraktsforskningsföretaget Link Medical ingår ett partnerskap med Serendipity partners, som går in som delägare och långsiktig investerare i bolaget.

The government proposes fines for pharmaceutical companies that fail to notify drug shortages in time

According to a compilation from the Swedish Medicines Agency, the number of residually notified medicines increased by 54 % in Sweden last year compared to the ...

Göran Stiernstedt: “We are the world’s worst at continuity”

. “It makes me extremely frustrated,” he says.

The fast route to a safe insulin pen

Diabetes is on the rise worldwide with around ten million people developing the disease every year. Demand for insulin pens allowing patients to self-medicate i...

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...

Gesyntas beslut: Ska utveckla läkemedel mot endometrios

Gesynta Pharma har beslutat att gå vidare med utvecklingen av en icke-hormonell behandling av endometrios, en smärtsam sjukdom som drabbar bortåt var tionde kvi...

Ny forskarskola ska skapa spetskompetens i ATMP

Det kommer att behövas 500 personer med spetskompetens inom avancerade terapiläkemedel inom några år. För att lyckas med det startar nu fem lärosäten tillsamman...

Collaboration in laboratory automation

The Dutch company Synchron Lab Automation developed an automated DNA extraction system with high throughput, working very closely together with Festo. As a resu...

“We need to build flexible operating theatres”

Flexible operating theatres, micro-sensors on surgeons to monitor their well-being and 3D images projected onto organs to be operated on. These are a few ideas ...

KD: ”Tillgången till blod måste öka”

Tillgången till blod är livsavgörande i sjukvården och av särskild stor betydelse vid händelse med många svårt skadade, skriver Christian Carlsson (KD) ordföran...

Study: An objective diagnosis of constant tinnitus may be possible

A new method that measures brain activity during sound stimulation can make it possible to objectively diagnose and identify people who suffer from constant tin...

Nascent Invest och Fort Knox investerar i test för bloddoping

Umeåföretaget Pro Test Diagnostics får in 17 miljoner kronor som ska användas för att färdigställa ett test-kit mot bloddoping.

Swedish breakthrough in Alzheimer’s: “We can finally present great data”

Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are currently among the hottest topics in drug development. Two Swedish research companies with high ambitions and successes ...

Samuel Lagercrantz: Collaboration and joint efforts are the key to success

Although many questions about Covid-19 remain unanswered, the development of drugs and vaccines has been incredibly rapid, writes Samuel Lagercrantz, Life Scien...

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

Failed to read the fine print – lost his life’s work

A celebrated CEO and co-founder of a pioneering lab company one moment – the next, fired, kicked out and written out of the company’s history. This is the story...

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