Budgetbråk stoppar FDA

Den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten har stängt ner delar av verksamheten till följd av att republikanerna och demokraterna inte kommer överens om nationens bu...

Coordination of world-class research facilities

Four unique world-class research facilities are located just a few hours apart. Properly utilised, a Nordic centre for world-leading life science innovation and...

Läkemedelsbolagens utbetalningar - branschen kommenterar

Nu offentliggör läkemedelsföretagen information om ersättningar, värdeöverföringar, som betalats ut till hälso- och sjukvården under 2015. Här kommenterar brans...

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...

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...

Studie: Önsketänkande kan ha väglett beteende under pandemin

En ny doktorsavhandling tyder på att vi systematiskt underskattar hälsorisker – om och när det passar oss. Det gällde inte minst under pandemin då våra riskbedö...

Helena Strigård: The rise of the community

Sweden Bio´s CEO is looking back at the last decade of development in the industry. Something has shifted in the interdependence between small and larger companies.

A world-class research village

Eight years ago, Medicon Village was set up in Lund. Since then, this hub for research, innovation and business has developed enormously, and today the life sci...

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...

Swedish Healthtech Company 1928 Pushing Forward

The full service analytics platform is expanding the business.

Kommer vi att vara nöjda 2035?

Vikten av att långsiktigt säkerställa kompetensbehoven inom life science behöver lyftas fram mer, skriver Karin Meyer, Apotekarsocieteten.

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

Samuel Lagercrantz: Collaboration and joint efforts are the key to success

Although many questions about Covid-19 remain unanswered, the development of drugs and vaccines has been incredibly rapid, writes Samuel Lagercrantz, Life Scien...

Engage with your CMO early

Gordon Hutton is Materials Science Lead at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s, formerly GSK, small molecule API site in Cork, Ireland.

Combining two drug delivery strategies to improve bioavailability

Danish researchers hope to increase the bioavailability of low solubility drugs.

Pharma Outsourcing igång på Stockholm Waterfront

När kommer life science-strategin?

Socialdemokraternas Ingela Nylund Watz ifrågasätter Lööfs life science-strategi i ett öppet brev till näringsministern.

Europa hamstrar jod

Efter att kärnkraftverken tagit skada av tsunamin i Japan sprids skräcken om radioaktiv strålning. Medas jodtabletter, som ska skydda mot strålningen, har tagit...

Cancer cells cheat suicide call

Cancer cells cheat death by reversing a process which causes normal cells to commit suicide at the end of their natural life, researchers from the University of...

180 cancerforskare samlas digitalt i Lund

Medicon Village och Lunds universitet ordnar ett digitalt möte på Världscancerdagen på torsdag.

Patienterna vill ha tre saker

KRÖNIKA: "När samverkan mellan industri, akademi och sjukvård inte bara är honnörsord utan på allvar blir accepterat, välkomnat och understött, då kan vi bygga ...

From spin-off to phase II

”The people there will basically become your new colleagues” – Carina Schmidt, former CEO of Athera, about working with different contractors.

Ambassador program makes MVA big in Japan

The first ambassadors of the Medicon Valley Ambassador Programme have only worked in each other's countries for six months. But they have already made a signifi...

Visar lovande ny mekanism mot alzheimer

”Vi är nära ett genombrott i kampen mot Alzheimers sjukdom.” Det var budskapet från Pontus Forsell, forskningschef på AlzeCure, vid mötet 17th International Con...