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...

Column: ”Life as a F1 race”

"The F1 car makes several pit stops during a race and during a lifetime the human being may also have to come in several times for maintenance", Björn Ursing wr...

The Swedish Academy of Sciences: “We have too many researchers”

Sweden does not need more researchers, but it does need better ones. According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, funding should be distributed to favour excellence.

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...

Nya miljardbesparingar på Pfizer

Den amerikanske läkemedelsjätten Pfizer aviserar ett sparprogram som ska sänka bolagets kostnader med 1,5 miljarder dollar, motsvarande 16 miljarder kronor, und...

Saving lives worldwide with low-cost molecular diagnostics

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

Column: ”Cheating with pea flowers and does it matter whether you are right?”

Is it possible to forgive shortcuts or outright cheating in science - if it turns out that the researcher was ultimately right? Anna Törner discuss this topic in a column.

The Swedish Research Council gets go-ahead for more long-term funding

Following a government decision, the Swedish Research Council will soon be able to approve ten-year grant periods for funding research infrastructure, which may...

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...

Accurate removal of prostate tissue

Medical robots play an important role in diagnostics

Nässprej för behandling av anafylaxi godkänd i USA

Den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten, FDA, har gett tummen upp till en ny typ av nässprej. Nässprejen är ett injektionsfritt alternativ för behandling av akuta...

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...

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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...

Bilden av Alzheimers – neurobiolog vid SU och KI får Lennart Nilssons pris

Med fascinerande bilder och filmer i 3D har han bidragit till ökad kunskap om allt från innerörats anatomi till sjukdomar som fettlever och Alzheimers. Nu tilld...

Ännu ett genterapibolag krisar – säger upp 100

Det är tuffa tider för många cell- och genterapibolag. Det senaste exemplet är amerikanska Bluebird Bio, som säger upp var fjärde anställd i ett försök att rädda verksamheten.

Study names with an attitude – more important than you might think

Ironman, T-rex, Star-Trek. Popcorn, Proper, Scout. Nope, these are neither fantasy films nor dog names. They’re the names of ongoing cancer studies in Sweden.

Larm: Varningsnätverk för globala sjukdomsutbrott kan kollapsa

Varningssystemet för sjukdomsutbrott, Pro Med, som bland annat var en av de första att varna världen om covid-19 tycks vara nära kollaps.

A billion-dollar acquisition makes Novo Nordisk even bigger in obesity

Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk acquires Montreal-based Inversago Pharma, which develops treatments for obesity and diabetes.

Why the world renown researcher Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns as Stanford´s president

In mid-summer, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation as President of Stanford following allegations of manipulated study data. According...

Gothenburg-based company acquired by Norwegian diagnostics group

Gentian Diagnostics acquires Gothenburg-based Getica.

Smartcella värvar från Millipore Sigma

Biotech- och medtechbolaget Smartcella har utsett Nina Bauer till ny Chief Business Officer och Head of Smartwise.

Uppsala-based company wins important patent dispute – but the decision is subject to appeal

A US district court has ruled in favour of Orexo in a dispute over the patent protecting the Swedish company’s drug Zubsolv, developed for treating patients wit...

Bioarctic granted Japanese patent for Parkinson’s disease candidate

Bioarctic has been granted a Japanese patent for its antibodies targeting Parkinson’s disease.