The Swedish innovation model: “There is a paradox”

It is often said that Sweden is strong when it comes to innovation, but how well are we turning that innovation into actual medicines?

Science to Market - S2M

23andme köps upp – Regeneron tar över miljontals DNA-prover

Läkemedelsutvecklaren Regeneron bjöd högst och ser ut att ta över konkursade DNA-testbolaget 23andme och dess biobank med genetisk information om miljontals kunder.

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.

Han är Roches nya Sverigechef

Roche i Sverige har fått en ny vd. Det är Yoshito Nakanishi, med japansk bakgrund, som har tagit över posten och ska leda verksamheten från kontoret i Solna.

Swedish and Ukrainian Medical Product Agencies sign an agreement

The Directors-General of the Swedish and Ukrainian Medical Products Agencies have signed a cooperation agreement.

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

This is how Anette Steenberg will put Medicon Valley on the world map

Anette Steenberg has been CEO of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster Medicon Valley Alliance since 1 November last year. Life Science Sweden called her to a...

Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients

In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.

Pfizer’s Paxlovid is being tested against post-COVID in a major Swedish study

In a new study conducted at the Karolinska University Hospital, Pfizer’s COVID drug, Paxlovid, is now being tested in patients with post-COVID. The study is one...

Bioscience – Groundbreaking Research & Diagnostics: Stockholm (2026)

Meribel Pharma Solna

Small robots to deliver pharmaceuticals to the body

Robots that can operate inside the body and a platform that combines ultrasound with AI. These are a couple of the technologies that have qualified for a list t...

Lonza

Delivering drugs with small devices

There are many challenges to overcome when delivering a drug orally. Getting the drug to survive the low pH of the ventricle and being released at the correct s...

Stockholm and Uppsala jointly form a life science cluster

Stockholm and Uppsala are strengthening cooperation in medical research and biotech.

The art of building a biologic drug

The first biosimilar from Xbrane Biopharma was launched earlier this year, and several more are under development at the company’s facility in Solna, Sweden. “W...

Event om biologiska läkemedel fyllde tio

Under torsdagen förra veckan arrangerades Life Science Swedens event New Horizons in Biologics & Bioprocessing för tionde gången.

In search of Marcel Proust's lost health

A great writer, but also a weak person and a hypochondriac. That has been the usual image of Marcel Proust. But the pediatrician and literary scholar Carl Lindg...

Gilead står fast vid hivsatsning – trots hotad finansiering

Gilead Sciences planerar fortfarande att leverera sitt hiv-läkemedel till låginkomstländer om det godkänns i USA, trots osäker finansiering efter Trumpadministr...

Björn Ursing: Physicians new role in AI driven healthcare

”AI could be the key we need for tomorrow’s healthcare, but it is not a stand-alone tool”, writes Björn Ursing in a column about how the role for physicians cha...

Gröna satsningar ger klirr i kassan för svenska tillverkare

Allt fler svenska medelstora tillverkare ser hållbarhet som en självklar del av affären – och inte bara för att det är rätt väg framåt ur ett miljöperspektiv. E...

Pharmaevent lockade internationella deltagare

Under tisdagen arrangerade Life Science Sweden eventet Pharma Outsourcing. I år var deltagare från över 10 länder på plats i Life City i Hagastaden.

Novo Nordisk vill ha skadestånd efter misslyckat miljardförvärv

Novo Nordisk vill ha ett skadestånd på upp till 830 miljoner dollar från KBP Biosciences, enligt ett domslut från en domstol i Singapore.