Takeover bid is being completed – Japanese company acquires Calliditas

Japanese company Asahi Kasei completes the bid for Calliditas Therapeutics after reaching over 90 percent of the shareholding. Callidita's board has now decided...

Higher throughput in less time

Do you want to automate your quality processes, shorten inspection times and increase your throughput? Gain inspiration from the experience of the medical techn...

Sobi announces agreement with Enable Injections

Swedish biopharma Sobi has entered into an international development and distribution agreement with US drug delivery company Enable Injections.

Tidig operation gav bättre överlevnad i prostatacancer

Operation direkt av prostatacancer gav längre livslängd för patienterna än ett mer avvaktande tillvägagångssätt i en 30 år lång skandinavisk studie ledd från Up...

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...

He got inside the head of Sweden’s vaccine hunter

The hunt for the COVID-19 vaccine is the theme of the new book Vaccinjägaren (The Vaccine Hunter). It tells the story of Richard Bergström’s mission as Sweden’s...

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...

Trump i nytt försök att pressa läkemedelspriser

USA:s president Donald Trump meddelade på söndagen att han tänker underteckna en presidentorder för att sänka priserna på receptbelagda läkemedel till samma niv...

A mass flow controller that is silent, fast and cost-effective

Portable ventilator breathing devices, bioreactors or the dosing of inert gases all rely on the highest control dynamics. That is exactly what the proportional ...

MSD discontinues two Keytruda trials

MSD has stopped two late-stage trials that tested its blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda as a treatment for skin and lung cancer.

We will now publish more news in English – and offer yet another newsletter

Starting next week, Life Science Sweden will begin offering a newsletter entirely in English.

Astra Zeneca lägger ut miljonbelopp i Ryssland – ”Varken acceptabelt eller försvarligt”

Svensk-brittiska Astra Zeneca har spenderat mångmiljonbelopp i Ryssland efter krigsutbrottet. Det handlar bland annat om bidrag, donationer, genomföranden av st...

Festo Expands its Portfolio with Multilayer Manifolds

Manufacturers of medical and laboratory equipment now receive solutions from a single source

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 ...

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 ...

Standardisation in automation

B. Braun Melsungen had a great idea and implemented it throughout the plant. Production for infusion solutions was to be largely standardised. B. Braun hoped th...

Novo Nordisk accepterar förhandlade Medicare-priser för fetmaläkemedel

Novo Nordisk har ingått ett prisavtal med USA gällande läkemedelsprogrammet Medicare. Det uppger bolaget i sin delårsrapport.

BioProTT Clamp-On SL beröringsfria flödesgivare

BioProTT Clamp-On SL beröringsfria flödesgivare för single-use bioprocessteknik – från PSG Biotech.

Studie: Aspirin kan halvera risken för återfall vid tarmcancer

En låg dos av aspirin kan dramatiskt minska återfallsrisken vid tjock- och ändtarmscancer, enligt en ny nordisk studie. Effekten var särskilt tydlig hos patient...

The dock that “thinks” for itself

The world of bulk material handling seems straightforward at first glance: moving, filling, delivering. However, the art of dealing with a variety of different ...

The impact of the recession on the Swedish medtech sector

We need health care regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, but the current recession also affects the Medtech sector.

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Lista: Årets mest framstående medicinska uppfinningar

Den subkutana formen av det svenskutvecklade alzheimerläkemedlet Leqembi lyfts fram när Time presenterar sin årliga lista över de bästa uppfinningarna 2025.

Clean solutions - Handling viscose substances with precision

Paar, is one such solution – and uses electric axes and control systems from Festo.