Uppgörelse klar om Henrietta Lacks odödliga celler

Sedan över 70 år lever Henrietta Lacks celler vidare i laboratorier världen över, och har bidragit till medicinsk forskning som räddat otaliga liv. Själv visste...

New rules for diagnostic products, but who will certify them? “An extreme shortage area”

In less than two weeks, new and stricter EU rules will enter into force for thousands of products used in important diagnoses of, among other things, cancer and...

Göran Stiernstedt: “We are the world’s worst at continuity”

Failed investments in primary care, an unreasonable system with online doctors and a public failure at coordinating the healthcare IT system. Göran Stiernstedt ...

Pfizer’s record year – topped the $100 billion mark

In 2022 Pfizer, as the first pharmaceutical company in history, reached an annual revenue of more than 100 billion dollars, thereby surpassing Johnson & Johnson...

Test ska visa om antibiotika fungerar

En metod utvecklad av forskare från Karolinska insitutet ska kunna hjälpa till att visa om bakterier svarar på en antibiotikabehandling. De har nu startat ett f...

Uppsalabo vann postdok hos Astra Zeneca i internationell tävling

Nu står det klart att alla åtta finalister i Astra Zenecas tävling Postdoc Challenge tilldelas en postdoktors-tjänst hos läkemedelsföretaget. En av vinnarna är ...

IVI’s Director General on establishing in Sweden: Will need up to 40 employees

The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, hopes to have its first staff on-site in Stockholm within a couple of months, says the institute’s Director General Je...

Studie: Svår covid-19 ger försvagat immunförsvar i minst ett halvår

Allvarlig covid-19-sjukdom påverkar immunförsvaret negativt i minst ett halvår efter tillfrisknandet, enligt en studie från Linköpings universitet.

Apotek Hjärtat får ny vd

Genes from Neanderthals can affect the correct drug dosage

A fifth of all Europeans carry gene variants inherited from Neanderthals, which cause certain drugs to break down more slowly. This may have implications for th...

Study: Chat GPT is more empathetic than doctors

The AI tool Chat GPT is not only more accurate when it comes to answering patient questions – the chatbot is also perceived as almost 10 times more empathetic t...

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.

TCO easy comparison of electric and pneumatic solutions

Find the right technology for your application and compare CO₂ emission and TCO The shown results are not based on a sizing calculation, parameters like service...

Astra Zeneca utser ny Sverige-vd

Astra Zeneca har utsett Per Alfredsson till ny vd för den svenska verksamheten. Han ersätter med omedelbar verkan Katarina Ageborg, som går i pension.

He will be the new chair of Medicon Valley Alliance

Niels Abel Bonde is the nomination committee’s proposal and the most likely person to take over as the new chairman of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster o...

She creates pharmaceuticals on a 3D printer

The correct dosage for each individual, regardless of whether the pharmaceutical is for a seriously ill child or a frail elderly person, is the mission of a wel...

Tablett med semaglutid gav viktminskning

Läkemedelssubstansen semaglutid är effektiv för viktminskning även när den ges i tablettform, enligt en fas 3-studie.

SEO byrå i Göteborg växer så att det knakar

Att hamna högt upp i Googles sökresultat är något som mer eller mindre är ett måste för de allra flesta företag inom de flesta branscher.

“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...

Så mycket väntas lecanemab sälja globalt

Försäljningen av Leqembi (lecanemab), som nyligen fick ett accelererat USA-godkännande som behandling mot Alzheimers sjukdom, väntas globalt uppgå till sju milj...

CROs in drug development: "We use our expertise to speed up the process

Consultancy firms have become an increasingly important part of drug development. “It’s a trend and a business model that works, and we see no indication that i...

The route to vaccines for everyone: “We did not just sit around and wait”

The pandemic was in full swing, and no one knew when or even if a vaccine would come. At that point, the Swedish Minister of Social Affairs called with a propos...

Anna Törner: Success requires bold decisions!

“Doing things right is fine, but doing the right things as soon as possible is even better”, writes Anna Törner in a column.

Universitet erbjuder platser till ukrainska forskare

Forskningslaboratorier världen över öppnar sina dörrar för forskare från Ukraina. Vid Stockholms universitet står nu flera kemilabb beredda att ta emot ukrainska kollegor.