“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...

The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine

The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast ...

Egetis lägger ned buddiskussionerna

Svenska läkemedelsutvecklaren Egetis Therapeutics har gått ut med att diskussionerna om ett potentiellt förvärv av företaget nu har lagts ner.

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

Eugen Steiner föreslås bli styrelseordförande i Bioarctic

Läkaren och styrelseproffset Eugen Steiner föreslås ta över som ordförande i Bioarctic efter avgående Wenche Rolfsen.

Ny upptäckt kring telomerernas DNA – kan koda för proteiner

Telomererna, som sitter i ändarna av DNA-molekylen, har fler funktioner än vi tidigare trott, menar forskare från University of North Carolina, UNC, school of medicine.

Marie Gårdmark: Do EMA and FDA talk to each other?

Of course they do! The collaboration started already in 2003, writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.

“An entire industry is about to be wiped out”

According to Jennie Ekbeck, CEO of Umeå Biotech Incubators, Sweden risks not having any small diagnostic companies left in five years.

Decades of research destroyed at KI – a hacker attack cannot be ruled out!

Years of research, together with half a billion Swedish krona, went up in smoke when the freezers at Karolinska Institutet overheated. The breakdown has now bee...

Quiet, fast, inexpensive: mass flow controller for life sciences

Whether in portable oxygen system devices or in bioreactors, the new proportional flow control valve VEMD from Festo provides extremely high control dynamics an...

Företag i Kanada får börja tillverka kokain

Ett företag i den kanadensiska provinsen British Columbia har fått tillstånd att tillverka och sälja kokain på licens.

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...

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 ...

Column: Why there cannot be a complete cure for cancer – but there is certainly another way!

"Is there a new way we need to be thinking about how to prevent cancer?" Lucy Robertshaw reflects upon which is the smartest way to beat cancer.

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.

Pilots want to live too

Sobis giktläkemedel nådde primära mål i fas III

Svenska Sobi och amerikanska partnern Selecta rapporterar övergripande resultat från fas III-studier med giktläkemedlet SEL-212.

Krönika: Collaboration across borders

Sweden is organising a large life science conference as part of the EU presidency

On 26-27 June, Sweden will host a European meeting on life science.

MedVasc and Scientific Solutions join forces to streamline FDA 510(k) regulatory process

MedVasc, an exciting MedTech startup company, and Scientific Solutions, a renowned consulting firm within Life Science, are pleased to announce a strategic part...

Marie Gårdmark: Potential step change – EU regulators get to play with data

A new pilot from EMA is starting in September to assess wether the analysis of 'raw data' by regulatory authorities improves the evaluation of marketing approval for new medicines. Marie Grådmark writes in a column that she is looking forward...

Business Sweden’s new team is rolling out the blue-yellow carpet

According to Business Sweden’s life science team, the combination of substantial medical know-how and an ever-flourishing tech sector is a success factor for Sw...

Studie: Apkoppor kan smitta före symtom

Över hälften av dem som fått apkoppor i det pågående utbrottet kan ha smittats av personer som ännu inte haft några symtom av sjukdomen, enligt en brittisk studie.

Lucy Robertshaw: There is a bio revolution happening right now

Lucy Robertshaw is both proud and excited to be taking the baton of moderating this year’s Pharma Outsourcing event.