FDA approves first non-opioid pain reliever in over 20 years

For the first time in decades, a new type of acute pain medication that is not an opioid has been approved in the USA.

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A new malaria vaccine offers hope but much more research is still needed

There has long been no vaccine against malaria, but there have been breakthroughs in recent years. However, it is still unclear how we become immune to the mala...

Ossiform: Quality control of 3D printed bone implants

Ossiform chose the GOM Scan 1.

Björn Arvidsson: ”Långsiktiga satsningar är inga lyxprojekt utan framtidslöften”

Life science kan bli Sveriges nästa stora kapitel, men för det krävs uthållighet och politiskt mod, skriver Björn Arvidsson i en krönika.

Lucy Robertshaw: Artificial intelligence – is this really going to transform a patient’s life?

In a column Lucy Robertshaw reflects on how AI and new regulations will affect healthcare, innovation and the lives of future patients.

Göran Stiernstedt: “We are the world’s worst at continuity”

Failed investments in primary care, an unreasonable system with online doctors and a public failure at coordinating the healthcare IT system. Göran Stiernstedt ...

From the sea of Åland to a self-test for lithium

Four years ago, a meeting on the sea of Åland resulted in the development of a self-test for lithium levels in the blood. The hopes are that the test will be av...

Ozempic may benefit hip replacement surgery

The high-profile drug for type 2 diabetes and weight loss may be beneficial in other areas. One such area is for patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, a ...

ZEISS Insights: Measurement of bone plates and screws

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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...

The Swedish Life Science Office: “We lost in both coordination and manpower”

Since the turn of the year, the Swedish government’s life science office has operated at a lower capacity. Life Science Sweden has spoken to Pontus Holm, Depart...

The stomach medication that became the biggest blockbuster of the 1990s

The omeprazole molecule was synthesised as early as 1979, but it took many years before the then Astra had an approved pharmaceutical. Once this happened, a tab...

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

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 result, customers in the seed industry can collect DNA from up to 40,000 samples per day....

A vaccine the world is waiting for: “It can change the lives of many”

A Solna laboratory is developing a vaccine that could save the lives of countless children in low- and middle-income countries. “Working on something that can m...

Rapid development in blood analysis – “Sweden is leading the race”

Thousands of analytical tests using just one single drop of blood. What was revealed as a hoax just a few years ago is now a reality, according to KTH professor...

H-index etablerat men ifrågasatt – ”Mäter inte originalitet”

H-index spelar en erkänd roll. Men att stirra sig blind på den siffran kan göra att man missar andra viktiga forskare och genombrott, menar Forska Sveriges gene...

Miljardsatsning ska få forskare att lämna USA för EU

Vita husets krav på ökat inflytande över universiteten har väckt oro för hotad akademisk frihet. Nu ska en ny EU-förorning locka amerikanska forskare till Europ...

Tolv tidigare FDA-chefer varnar för ny vaccinlinje

Tolv tidigare kommissionärer vid den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA uttrycker nu djup oro över förslag till förändringar i myndighetens vaccinreglering.

Vinnova is going to establish a new innovation cluster

Vinnova, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, has been commissioned by the government to establish a national innovation cluster for advanced medicines.

Skräddarsydda manluckor i rostfritt stål

När standardlösningar inte räcker till, erbjuder OEM Automatic kundunika manluckor och tanklock i rostfritt och syrafast stål. I nära samarbete med den tyska ti...

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