The Swedish Academy of Sciences: “We have too many researchers”

Sweden does not need more researchers, but it does need better ones. According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, funding should be distributed to favour excellence.

Viktigt steg för Neola – ska göra studie med för tidigt födda

Efter år av utvecklingsarbete av sitt lungövervakningssystem har Neola Medical fått ett glädjande besked: ett tillstånd att starta sin första kliniska studie på...

Utvecklar snabb diagnostik vid sepsis – ”Varje timme räknas”

Rätt antibiotika i rätt dos – och det med en ultrasnabb analysmetod. Gradientechs produktlösning används idag i rutindiagnostik på flera sjukhus i Europa – och ...

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...

Integrated solutions for liquid handling

Greater efficiency for manufacturers in laboratory automation and many other industries

Alert from the Swedish Medicines Agency: Many complications with gastric balloons

According to the Swedish Medicines Agency, an increasing number of serious complications are being reported in procedures with gastric balloons as a method for ...

KI’s new President: “We need to work closer together”

A closer link between research and education and a stronger “we-feeling” are aims that Annika Östman Wernerson sets out to achieve as the new President of Karol...

Ossiform: Quality control of 3D printed bone implants

Ossiform chose the GOM Scan 1.

Hello Jenni Nordborg!

Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Jenni Nordborg and asks her about her new job, why she became a chemical engineer and who her role model is.

High-tech companies are increasingly focusing on health

Tech companies have been taking an interest in healthcare for many years, and this interest seems to be increasing. “It’s not a sudden shift in trend, it’s more...

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...

Novo Nordisk to invest billions in Danish manufacturing facilities

Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk is investing DKK 42 billion, equivalent to around SEK 65 billion/EUR 5.6 billion, in its manufacturing facilities in Ka...

Charlotta Gummeson leaves Sahlgrenska Science Park – “It feels sad and exciting at the same time”

With mixed emotions, Charlotta Gummeson will leave her position as CEO of Sahlgrenska Science Park in October. “It feels sad and exciting at the same time. I’ve...

New study: Post-Covid symptoms are common even after mild Covid-19

According to researchers at the University of Gothenburg, loss of smell and taste, shortness of breath and chest symptoms are the most common complaints after a...

Karlstadprofessor prisas för insatser inom kromatografi

Torgny Fornstedt, professor i analytisk kemi vid Karlstads universitet, har tilldelats J.F.K. Huber Lecture Award för ”banbrytande bidrag inom fundamental först...

Cytel Inc acquires the SDS Group

The multinational statistical software developer and contract research organization Cytel Inc, headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, acquires the Swedish consult...

HAB Nicolai Johannsen

KI-forskare har upptäckt biomarkörer för postcovid

Forskare vid Karolinska institutet har i en ny studie identifierat en uppsättning proteiner i blod hos personer med långvariga besvär av postcovid.

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

DBB ventiler: Snabbare installationer och färre skarvar

Spirax Sarco Safebloc är en lösning med en unik platsbesparande design som innebär snabbare installation och färre skarvar. Spirax

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...

On the hunt for high throughput diagnostics

Global diagnostics companies and laboratories are in a race against time to adapt testing capacity to current demand. Due to the global COVID 19 pandemic, the d...

Study: Cancer vaccine prolongs survival in difficult-to-treat tumour disease

According to a new study, a combination of a cancer vaccine from Norwegian company Ultimovacs and two immunotherapies significantly prolonged survival in cases ...

Samuel Lagercrantz: ”Bolag i det fördolda får branschen att blomma”

Det finns en kategori företag som sällan står i rampljuset, men som sysselsätter många personer inom life science-sektorn och som har stor betydelse för branschen.