Automated opening and closing of sample vials

From technical requirements to a suitable solution

AI speeds up measurement process

How to inspect coatings ten times faster with a light microscope? The medical technology group Smith+Nephew has been using ZEISS Axio Imager.Z2m since summer 2022.

Great Swedish innovations: Eye treatment became a feather in Pharmacia’s cap

From complicated and sometimes risky surgery to a routine procedure. Pharmacia’s injectable Healon revolutionised the field of eye surgery - and is considered b...

Ingrid Lönnstedt: Demystification of the power of a scientific study

”You surely do realize that even the smallest changes in study assumptions may influence the estimated sample size needed. And how is it even possible to guess ...

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

Nordic Regulatory experts: Improving biotech chances of Succ

Why is it that so many biotech companies fail? And what are the tools needed to change that fact?

A surprising discovery about the immune system in cases of cancer

Professor Göran Jönsson is trying to understand why some patients benefit from immunotherapies while others don’t. A couple of years ago, he made a surprising d...

How to optimise your liquid handling results

In dispensing or pipetting applications in laboratory automation, it is important to obtain reliable results, which are analysed by calculating the accuracy and...

Ready-to-install solutions for the lab-on-a-chip

Design for manufacturing lab-on-a-chip devices Reducing time-to-market together

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...

Integrated solutions for liquid handling

Greater efficiency for manufacturers in laboratory automation and many other industries

Trends and overview: ELRIG "Robotics and Automation"

Laboratories on the way to end-to-end automation: Robotics, artificial intelligence and automation technology boosted by pandemic

The dock that “thinks” for itself

The world of bulk material handling seems straightforward at first glance: moving, filling, delivering. However, the art of dealing with a variety of different ...

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...

“Together Stockholm-Uppsala and Medicon Valley can make Scandinavia a leading life science region”

“Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland all have national life science strategies, but the Swedish strategy is the only one explicitly emphasizing the Nordic dimen...

It´s time to establish relations

Communication with the patient is the key to future healthcare, writes Hanna Brodda, editor in chief of Life Science Sweden.

Problemfri Western Blot

Med Simple Western och det nya kitet Total Protein Master Kit kan alla proteiner i ett prov analyseras automatiskt utan att använda antikroppar.

Tar fram AI-stöd för ambulanspatienter

Ett AI-beslutsstöd för akutvårdspersonalen som baseras på inmatade patientdata. Det är målet med ett projekt vid Högskolan i Borås.

Pilots want to live too

The perfect formula for decision-making

No one has the luxury not to take a decision, writes Helena Strigård at Swedenbio.

Rapid system for surface hygiene monitoring

The Clean-Trace Surface Testing Instruments are a rapid solution to monitor biological contamination on surfaces in real time to help customers manage their cle...

Namn på ersättningsläkemedel kan förvirra

Ersättningsmediciner är bra för landstingens ekonomi. Men samtidigt riskerar patienter att inte känna igen sina mediciner, när det står andra namn på förpacknin...

Förenklad hantering av olika vätskor

Från KNF Flodos kommer en ny liten membranpump under namnet Simdos.