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...

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...

Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?

When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely e...

Neanderthal genes and Nobel Prize in a popular lecture at Bioscience

An inherited gene variant from our ”evolutionary cousins” – the extinct Neanderthals – may affect how our bodies break down certain drugs. “It’s only a matter o...

Editorial: ”AI that both impresses and frightens”

”In the past, I've rarely been particularly impressed by something that was produced by AI. But this is something completely different”, Samuel Lagercrantz writ...

“Everyone is screaming for talent”

Attracting talent is one of the life science industry’s major future challenges, which was one of the conclusions of the panel discussion that ended the New Hor...

Biovian rekryterar från Cobra Biologics

Magnus Gustafsson blir Head of Global Business Development.

Noxious parasite forms hybrids and deceives the immune system

The small parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has a nasty ability to cause serious illness. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have now mapped its ability to decei...

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...

Anna Törner: The minute between life and death

“I have never told anyone about this day that happened more than 20 years ago. But I sometimes reflect on what happened, on what might have happened. When I try...

Valves with piezo technology

Efficient control and regulation of gases in medical technology

Confidence in childhood vaccines is in decline worldwide

Since the pandemic, confidence in vaccinating children has plummeted. In a new report, UNICEF urges world leaders to act before the situation worsens. In 52 out...

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...

Från apotekare till poddare – Magnus Lejelöv har rösten som verktyg

Magnus Lejelöv har över 20 års erfarenhet från läkemedelssektorn och har intervjuat nära två hundra vårdprofiler i sina poddar. I maj står han på scenen i Lund ...

The government proposes fines for pharmaceutical companies that fail to notify drug shortages in time

According to a compilation from the Swedish Medicines Agency, the number of residually notified medicines increased by 54 % in Sweden last year compared to the ...

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

EMA review confirms a risk of new cancer after CAR-T

CAR-T cancer therapies can, in rare cases, induce secondary cancers. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) now recognises this and requires a warning label to be ...

Ny miljonsatsning på life science i Sverige

7,7 miljoner kronor ska nu satsas på ett projekt för att underlätta identifiering och produktion av läkemedel. Bridge Sweden är namnet på projektet och är ett s...

Precision medicine centre: “Extensive activity on several fronts”

Two years ago, the Karolinska Institutet and the Karolinska University Hospital announced that they would jointly launch the Precision Medicine Centre. Medtech ...

SMC Corporation Appoints Bianca Brunell as New General Manager for the Nordic and Baltic Countries

SMC Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Bianca Brunell as the new General Manager for SMC’s Nordic and Baltic countries, effective June 1, 2024.

A green nursery for biotech rooted in the Scanian soil

Red Glead has established itself as one of Lund’s largest companies in pharmaceutical development. Life Science Sweden went to Skåne and met two of the founders...

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?

Astra Zeneca's Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria is being withdrawn worldwide

AstraZeneca initiates a worldwide withdrawal of its Covid vaccine Vaxzevria. The measure is taken just months after the company admitted the vaccine can cause a...

Sweden is heavily criticised for not ordering Covid vaccine

Valneva and the EU Commission have entered into an agreement for 1.25 million doses of the company’s Covid vaccine, but Sweden has not placed an order.