“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 ...

Setback for pharmaceutical companies in the Zantac case

A Delaware judge has ruled in favour of allowing expert witnesses to testify in a case involving the now-cancelled drug Zantac and its potential carcinogenicity.

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...

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...

Kvinnan bakom Novo Nordisks fetmasuccé: ”Slutade aldrig tro på GLP-1”

Det tog flera år av misslyckanden inom GLP-1 innan Lotte Bjerre Knudsen och hennes kollegor hittade rätt – men då var det en riktig fullträff. ”Vi investerade i...

Isländsk genetikpionjär får Fernströms nordiska pris

En av världens mest kända forskare inom populationsgenetik, professor Kári Stefánsson från Island, tilldelas Eric K Fernström nordiska pris.

Forskare ifrågasätter tidskriftssystemet: ”En prestigeekonomi”

Rovtidskrifter rotar sig i ett mycket bredare problem med opålitliga kvalitetsmått och förskönade uppfattningar om anseende. Det menar KI-forskaren Gustav Nilso...

Total pipeline of pharmaceutical companies reaches a record high – 22,921 medicines are currently being developed

Despite the difficult economic times, pharmaceutical companies have never developed as many new drugs as now.

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 easy way to handle microtiter plate stacks

Do you want to automate handling of microtiter plates.? Have a look at a very simple solution on how to handle them.

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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 ...

Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse

The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala resear...

Pressen att publicera göder rovtidskrifterna

Forskare som lockas, eller luras, att publicera sig i tvivelaktiga vetenskapliga tidskrifter är ett fenomen som vuxit. Men vad är egentligen en rovtidskrift, oc...

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Bio Europe to Stockholm – ”The Swedish ecosystem is now taking the opportunity”

The international life science conference Bio Europe is coming to Sweden for the first time in November. The conference, whose program takes inspiration from AB...

Study: Popular diabetes treatment is not associated with thyroid cancer

Concerns raised about an association between GLP-1 analogues, used to treat diabetes and obesity, and an increased risk of thyroid cancer are not supported by a...

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...

Astra Zeneca's Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria is being withdrawn worldwide

AstraZeneca initiates a worldwide withdrawal of its Covid vaccine Vaxzevria. The measure is taken just months after the company admitted the vaccine can cause a...

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...

Eternal Rye – Improving Plant Breeding Methods

User story from Martin Luther University Halle.

Hon ska leda Lipigons kliniska prövningar

Umeåbolaget Lipigon Pharmaceuticals har anställt Isabelle Morin som Head of Clinical Operations.

”We need compatibility“

Penilla Gunther, founder of Fokus Patient and chair of the European Patient Safety Foundation, hopes that the forthcoming life science strategy will focus on ef...

Sobi planerar EMA-ansökan efter positiva studiedata för njurbehandling

Det svenska särläkemedelsbolaget Sobi rapporterar positiva resultat från en fas III-studie med företagets läkemedelskandidat pegcetacoplan mot två sällsynta nju...