Stockholm and Uppsala jointly form a life science cluster

Stockholm and Uppsala are strengthening cooperation in medical research and biotech.

SGS Fimko Ltd.

Pneumatics Makes a Technological Leap with Piezo

The first high-precision proportional valve terminal VTEP opens up new application areas

How critical are the “Spermageddon” reports? – Researchers call for action

A much talked about meta-study indicates that sperm concentration in men’s seminal fluid has halved in 40 years. Experts in andrology that Life Science Sweden s...

"Unclear proposal from the EU Commission on how to solve the MDR challenges"

Even before the EU regulation on medical devices (MDR) came into force, medical technology companies and doctors were concerned that it would endanger the avail...

Easy integration of piezo valves for gas handling

Extremely energy-saving, silent and without any heat build-up – piezo technology offers many benefits for efficient and precise gas handling in medical technolo...

Tirzepatide approved for obesity by the FDA – to be branded as Zepbound

Diabetes drug tirzepatide has now also been approved in the US for treating obesity.

Kompauto Nordic AB

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...

Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire

. However, instead, it actually turned out to be the starting point for one of the biggest success stories in Swedish life science.

AI upptäcker tumörsjukdom – via röstinspelning

En kort röstinspelning tillsammans med ansiktsbilder – i bägge fallen analyserade med en AI-algoritm – kan göra det möjligt att upptäcka den sällsynta tumörsjuk...

The first Lyme disease vaccine faces a delay

Pfizer and Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine, which could be the first of its kind, is facing delays of about a year. The reason is problems at trial sites in the ...

RegFile AB

Så går det i kapplöpningen mellan de nya alzheimerläkemedlen Kisunla och Leqembi

Kisunla eller Leqembi? Konkurrensen mellan Eli Lilly och Bioartic fortsätter. Där konkurrenten får godkänt går den andre bet. Här läser du vilka marknader som d...

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 100 million in a new...

Astra Zenecas Imfinzi rekommenderas för godkännande vid blåscancer

Läkemedelsbolaget Astra Zenecas läkemedel Imfinzi har rekommenderats för godkännande i EU som den första och enda perioperativa immunterapin för vuxna med muske...

”AI-teknologin är här – dags för industrin att ta rygg på Läkemedelsverket”

När Läkemedelsverket, som en av de första läkemedelsmyndigheterna i Europa, lanserade sin egen generativa AI-lösning – den lokalt driftade Regulus – sattes ett ...

”Information security must become part of the Swedish life science strategy”

Sweden needs knowledge security to stand strong in the global competition, writes Björn Ursing in an opinion article.

Setback for pharmaceutical companies in the Zantac case

A Delaware judge has ruled in favour of allowing expert witnesses to testify in a case involving the now-cancelled drug Zantac and its potential carcinogenicity.

Service och kalibrering av processinstrument

För att upprätthålla noggrannhet och tillförlitlighet i era mätprocesser erbjuder OEM Automatic ett omfattande utbud av service- och kalibreringstjänster. Tills...

ProPharma

Column: ”Life as a F1 race”

"The F1 car makes several pit stops during a race and during a lifetime the human being may also have to come in several times for maintenance", Björn Ursing wr...

Novo Nordisk buys drug candidate in billion dollar deal

The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk have made an agreement with KBP Biosciences to aqcuire the hypertension drug ocedurenone for up to 1.3 billion doll...

The Swedish government is to increase its investment in cancer care

The Swedish government wants to invest more in cancer and paediatric cancer care and proposes to allocate SEK 500 million per year for this purpose in the coming years.