Crispr-bolag pausar studier efter rapport om allvarliga biverkningar

En allvarlig leverpåverkan hos en patient gör att amerikanska Intellia Therapeutics nu stoppar behandling och rekrytering i fas 3-studier med företagets genterapi.

Novo Nordisk to invest billions in Danish manufacturing facilities

Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk is investing DKK 42 billion, equivalent to around SEK 65 billion/EUR 5.6 billion, in its manufacturing facilities in Ka...

“We need to build flexible operating theatres”

Flexible operating theatres, micro-sensors on surgeons to monitor their well-being and 3D images projected onto organs to be operated on. These are a few ideas ...

“We aim to be a start-up company with an academic spirit”

Chronic pain and Alzheimer’s are two diseases that plague many people worldwide and seem impossible to cure. However, Huddinge-based company Alzecure is working...

Cytel Sweden

Raised millions to develop a treatment for ´butterfly children´

Fragile as a butterfly’s wing – that’s how people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa are usually described. The Lund-based company Xinnate recently raised SEK 100 million in a new...

Bolag anklagas för att ha mörkat förhöjd risk för deltagare i alzheimerstudier

Ett stort antal deltagare i de kliniska alzheimerstudierna av lecanemab och donanemab bar på en genvariant som gjorde att de löpte förhöjd risk för allvarliga b...

Webinar: Medtech quality and regulatory compliance

This webinar is for you who are developing or planning to develop a medical device, combination, or borderline product. In one hour, we will discuss what you ne...

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...

Saving lives worldwide with low-cost molecular diagnostics

High throughput testing for many upper respiratory tract pathogens thanks to automation technology

Eli Lilly requests re-examination of Alzheimer's drug recommendation

Eli Lilly has requested that the EMA re-examine its opinion on the company's Alzheimer's drug, Kisunla, the agency announced on Friday.

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...

Novo Nordisk invests billions in expanding its production capacity

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is making a major investment to develop and expand its production facility in Hillerød, north of Copenhagen. DKK 15.9...

Column: Repurposing as a golden ticket to approval

"Hopefully, in the end, patients will be winners by receiving on-label treatments for which benefit-risk has been properly assessed." In a column Marie Gårdmark...

De guidar till branschens dolda jobb

Vad får du inte missa att lyfta fram när du letar nytt jobb inom life science? Och hur hittar du de dolda jobben? En ny kurs ska guida dig till drömjobbet.

AstraZeneca moves to brewery quarters in central Copenhagen

AstraZeneca in Denmark is moving its business into central Copenhagen and the old brewery quarters in Carlsberg Byen.

Moderna fälls efter 20 000-kronorserbjudande till barn

Moderna kritiseras i Storbritannien för ett felaktigt meddelande där barn erbjöds 1 500 pund, motsvarande över 20 000 kronor, för deltagande i en klinisk studie...

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...

Medical Applications

Video about metrology solutions for medical components

Regeringen: Mer kunskap behövs om postcovid

Regeringen vill öka kunskapsläget kring postcovid, särskilt när det kommer till behandling av barn. Socialstyrelsen och SBU får därför nya uppdrag.

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...

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

BioArctic moves forward with its candidate for Parkinson’s

BioArctic announces positive early phase study results for its drug candidate for Parkinson’s disease.

Trygg tryckmätning i hygieniska processer – OEM Automatic erbjuder lösningen från WIKA

I tillämpningar där hygien och säkerhet är avgörande, som inom läkemedelstillverkning och aseptisk livsmedelsproduktion, krävs komponenter som lever upp till de...