Precision and accuracy in liquid handling

How to evaluate and optimize liquid handling performance

Kinagodkännande ger klirr i kassan för Calliditas

Svenska Calliditas Therapeutics har fått sitt läkemedel Nefecon godkänt i Kina, och får därmed en milstolpsbetalning på fem miljoner dollar av sin kinesiska partner Everest.

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...

“Together Stockholm-Uppsala and Medicon Valley can make Scandinavia a leading life science region”

“Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland all have national life science strategies, but the Swedish strategy is the only one explicitly emphasizing the Nordic dimen...

Calliditas utser ny USA-chef

Calliditas Therapeutics har utsett Maria Törnsén till chef för bolagets amerikanska verksamhet.

This is the future location of the new national innovation cluster

Mölndal and Goco Health Innovation City will be the site of a new national innovation cluster for advanced therapies. The business community and the Swedish gov...

Major advances in IVF labs in the last few decades

Since the introduction of in vitro fertilisation several decades ago, many developments have been made in the field, and the main part of that development has t...

Column: ”Authentic leadership and clear mandates pave the way for more female CEOs”

”I believe that the aspect of having clear mandates and titles on the one hand and women progressing into top positions must be explored further”, Helena Strigå...

EU-kommissionen vill ge tillverkare mer tid för IVDR

Europakommissionen föreslår att tidsfristen för tillverkare att anpassa sig till det nya regelverket för produkter för in vitro-diagnostik, IVDR, skjuts upp.

Valves with piezo technology

Efficient control and regulation of gases in medical technology

Drug development creates new challenges for regulators

Ny styrelseordförande till Epista Life Science

Per Kogut blir ny styrelseordförande och Ronny Roos lämnar därmed ordförandeposten, men stannar kvar i styrelsen.

AI-stödd mammografi hittade fler cancerfall i studie

Screening med hjälp av AI hittade fler bröstcancerfall och minskade arbetsbördan kraftigt jämfört med sedvanlig röntgengranskning av två radiologer i en studie ...

Swedish Healthtech Company 1928 Pushing Forward

The full service analytics platform is expanding the business.

ALS – When the body has given up, but the brain persists

The nerve disease ALS gradually deprives the patient of control over the muscles and, eventually, also of speech. The eyes continue to function, though, and wit...

“An entire industry is about to be wiped out”

According to Jennie Ekbeck, CEO of Umeå Biotech Incubators, Sweden risks not having any small diagnostic companies left in five years.

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 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...

The new Astra Zeneca CEO: “An incredibly exciting phase”

Almost 27 years have passed since Per Alfredsson from Södertälje stepped into Astra Zeneca as a newly hired engineer. After countless different roles, including...

Första Crispr-behandlingen fick tummen upp av EMA

Den europeiska läkemedelsmyndigheten EMA rekommenderar ett villkorat godkännande av Casgevy – den första behandlingen som använder genredigeringstekniken Crispr...

New issue of Life Science Sweden!

The international issue of Life Science Sweden has been sent to press.

Sobis samarbete med Sanofi ger skörd – läkemedel mot hemofili godkänt i USA

Svenska särläkemedelsbolaget Sobi har fått ett nytt läkemedel mot hemofili A godkänt i USA. I EU väntas en ansökan om godkännande lämnas in senare i år.

Swedish breakthrough in Alzheimer’s: “We can finally present great data”

Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are currently among the hottest topics in drug development. Two Swedish research companies with high ambitions and successes ...

"Unclear proposal from the EU Commission on how to solve the MDR challenges"

Even before the EU regulation on medical devices (MDR) came into force, medical technology companies and doctors were concerned that it would endanger the avail...