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...

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

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.

Faster development of reliable sample handling

Festo USA has collaborated with PerkinElmer to develop a compact sample handling solution for a global leader in manufacturing medical devices. Thanks to the cu...

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.

Meeting with focus on South Korea and Japan’s life sciences

Large, complex and exciting – this is how Britta Stenson, Business Sweden, describes the life science markets of Japan and South Korea, which took centre stage ...

Here are the pharmaceutical companies best prepared for AI

How well prepared are pharmaceutical companies in the field of artificial intelligence? That is what a new analysis has tried to evaluate.

New drug alert in the US: Rise in overdoses linked to the use of drugs for animals

A combination of the synthetic drugs fentanyl and xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, has been labelled a “growing threat” by the White House due to its role in t...

Neanderthal gene variants may cause Viking disease

A new study suggests that the so-called Viking disease, which affects the hand function in many older people, may be linked to gene variants inherited from Neanderthals.

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...

Swedish pavilion with healthcare companies at Ukraine fair – “Ukraine is being rebuilt right now”

Private companies and public authorities are both needed in the reconstruction of Ukraine, said Minister for Health Care, Acko Ankarberg Johansson, in her openi...

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 ...

Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”

It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless differ...

“I am driven by the desire to develop a product that can be sold worldwide”

Ranked number one in the world by the WHO in diarrhoea research and soon in phase III studies for its vaccine candidate – Scandinavian Biopharma is rushing forw...

Specific proposals and targets top the universities’ desired priorities

What are the universities’ expectations for the update of the national life science strategy? Life Science Sweden posed the question to representatives from Kar...

ZEISS supports the transition of spatial biology to clinical research

Slide scanner ZEISS Axioscan 7 spatial biology provides scalable workflow automation.

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...

This is the future location of the new national innovation cluster

Mölndal and Goco Health Innovation City will be the site of a new national innovation cluster for advanced therapies. The business community and the Swedish gov...

Danska life science-industrin står för rekordhög export

Den danska exporten av life science-produkter har ökat explosionsartat, med en tillväxt på 227 procent sedan 2008 och utgjorde 2023 så mycket som 19 procent av ...

Japanese pharma to buy US drugmaker for $2.4 bln

Japanese Ono Pharmaceutical buys the American cancer drug developer Deciphera Pharmaceuticals in one of the largest acquisitions in the industry so far this year.

An easy way to handle microtiter plate stacks

Do you want to automate handling of microtiter plates.? Have a look at a very simple solution on how to handle them.

Här är människorna bakom de utpekade rovförlagen

I en artikelserie har Life Science Sweden rapporterat om rovtidskrifter och om tidskriftskapare. Men vilka är människorna bakom? Spåren leder till framgångsrika...

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...

ALS – When the body has given up, but the brain persists

The nerve disease ALS gradually deprives the patient of control over the muscles and, eventually, also of speech. The eyes continue to function, though, and wit...