Karolinska sjätte bästa sjukhus i världen enligt ny rankning

Den amerikanska tidskriften Newsweek rankar varje år världens bästa sjukhus. 2023 finns Karolinska universitetssjukhuset på sjätte plats.

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...

FOKUS Patient turns international

FOKUS Patient is arranging conferences over 3 days in October, and this year, the focus will be on international collaborations.

Conference on Alzheimer’s reveals several advances in the field

In Gothenburg, Sweden, researchers and pharmaceutical companies from all over the world gathered to discuss one specific issue – neurological diseases. Life Sci...

Why the world renown researcher Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns as Stanford´s president

In mid-summer, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation as President of Stanford following allegations of manipulated study data. According...

Pulsen på patientförbunden del 5: Hjärt- och lungsjukdomar

Sjukvården behöver ha ett ökat fokus på individens enskilda behov och samordna sig mer mellan specialist- och primärvård. Det framhåller Riksförbundet Hjärt Lun...

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...

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

“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...

Nobel Prize winner Torsten Wiesel turns 100: “Old men like me should use their experience to help the young”

In 1955, a young Torsten Wiesel jumped on a boat to the US and embarked on a fabulous career as a neuroscientist, crowned with a Nobel Prize for his work. Now 1...

Column: ”Authentic leadership and clear mandates pave the way for more female CEOs”

”I believe that the aspect of having clear mandates and titles on the one hand and women progressing into top positions must be explored further”, Helena Strigå...

“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...

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.

ZEISS Quality Innovation Days

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

Virtual Private Network

Du kanske vet vad ett VPN eller Virtual Private Network är, men det är inte säkert att du själv använder dig av ett.

Anna Törner: ”If I fall seriously ill, I’ll move to Finland”

”It is both undignified and undemocratic that cancer patients must travel to Finland to uphold a façade of fairness that does not truly exist”, Anna Törner writes in a column.

Your solution for right part positioning

ZEISS OmniFix CT - right part positioning solution to get meaningful measuring results for all part sizes.

Business Sweden: ”Bolag har mycket att tillföra inom datadriven precisionsmedicin”

Datadriven precisionsmedicin har potentialen att lösa stora problem inom sjukvården. Det skriver Business Sweden i en ny rapport på ämnet.

Novo Nordisk establishes new factory in Denmark

Novo Nordisk establishes a new production facility in Odense, Denmark, an investment of 8.5 billion Danish kroner.

Tidig tilläggsbehandling kan rädda liv på hjärtpatienter enligt studie

Tidig behandling med blodfettsänkande läkemedel ger en bättre prognos för patienter med hjärtinfarkt jämfört med en sent insatt behandling eller ingen behandlin...

Life Science Sweden heads to the Oresund region! ‒ Hello there Michael Linnell

Life Science Sweden’s The Future of Swedish Danish Life Science and New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meetings are coming up soon. We asked Mich...

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.

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 ...

Ylva Trolle Lagerros: ”Vissa borde få läkemedel mot obesitas subventionerat”

Som ledande expert på obesitas har Ylva Trolle Lagerros synts mycket i media på sista tiden. I en intervju med Life Science Sweden talar hon om stigmat kring fe...