ZEISS Quality Innovations at CONTROL

May 6-9, 2025 in Stuttgart.

Så blir svenska paviljongen vid Bio-Europe

Jättekonferensen Bio-Europe med över 5 000 deltagare äger i år för första gången rum i Stockholm – och svensk life science samlar styrkorna.

We desire talent to come here, but are we genuinely welcoming them?

Sweden faces significant challenges in creating a truly inclusive environment that makes international professionals feel welcome, valued, and able to build mea...

Clinigen Clinical Supplies Management GmbH

Radioactive tracer to measure effect of drug towards Crohn’s disease

A radioactive tracer developed by Astra Zeneca and the Karolinska Institutet may play a major role for patients with Crohn's disease. That is the belief of Mari...

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company Sanofi has reached a principal agreement in the US on around 4,000 of the cases in which its now withdrawn blockbuster heartburn d...

Därför skyr Big Pharma Storbritannien – miljardinvesteringar fryses

Läkemedelsjättar har skrotat eller pausat investeringar för nära två miljarder pund i Storbritannien hittills i år. Ett ”alltmer utmanande” klimat för innovatio...

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...

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.

Ny miljonsatsning på life science i Sverige

7,7 miljoner kronor ska nu satsas på ett projekt för att underlätta identifiering och produktion av läkemedel. Bridge Sweden är namnet på projektet och är ett s...

When carelessness, forgetfulness and coincidence become the researcher’s best friend

Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advanc...

“What is important is to create an overview and understanding from different perspectives”

Scientist Jochen Schwenk analyses blood proteins using proteomics to improve our understanding of disease and health. This year, he is moderating the Lab & Diag...

The first vaccine derived from cowpox

The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the ...

ZEISS Quality Innovation Days

The leading digital event from April 15-19, 2024.

Viktig forskarvän fyller 150 år

Denna banbrytande idé kan i år stoltsera med hela 150 år på nacken. Det är nämligen så länge sedan Dmitrij Mendelejev presenterade sin första version av periodiska systemet.

The most important Swedish medical innovations: Our ranking

Life Science Sweden turns 20 years old – and celebrates by producing a top list of the 20 most important contemporary Swedish innovations in the field of medicine.

Teresia Lönn är ny affärsområdeschef på Medhouse

Nyheter från Medhouse

Nanexa develops depot formulation of the diabetes and obesity drug Saxenda

Uppsala-based company Nanexa has signed an agreement with a German contract research company to start a clinical study with a monthly depot of liraglutide. The ...

“Research is always a lot of failures and a few successes”

Gene therapies open up fantastic possibilities, but they are also extremely expensive to produce. Genenova aims to change that and make the treatments accessibl...

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.

MSD discontinues development of cancer drugs after trial failures

MSD suspends Phase 3 trials for two drug programs for different forms of cancer after trial failures.

New Horizons in Biologics & Bioprocessing incl. Advanced Therapies: Copenhagen (2026)

He will be the new chair of Medicon Valley Alliance

Niels Abel Bonde is the nomination committee’s proposal and the most likely person to take over as the new chairman of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster o...

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...