Confidence in childhood vaccines is in decline worldwide

Since the pandemic, confidence in vaccinating children has plummeted. In a new report, UNICEF urges world leaders to act before the situation worsens. In 52 out...

19 medicines in Sweden are under investigation in a major EMA inquiry

19 medicines marketed in Sweden are affected by an ongoing extensive European investigation into suspected fraud at an Indian contract research organisation. Am...

Nanoparticles to help detect pulmonary disease

Nanoparticles behave in a certain way in the air. Using this knowledge, researchers at Lund University have developed a new measurement method for lung examinat...

Prövning av pillervaccin mot covid-19 avbryts i USA

Det amerikanska hälsodepartementet har beordrat stopp för en statligt finansierad fas IIb-studie som skulle utvärdera ett potentiellt pillervaccin mot covid-19.

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...

Nytt godkännande för Elektas Gamma Knife i USA

Strålterapibolaget Elekta har fått klartecken av den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA för att använda sitt Gamma Knife-system vid ytterligare en typ av sär...

The Crucial Role of Core Imaging Facility Managers

User story from ZEISS and the University of York.

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...

Marie Gårdmark: Potential step change – EU regulators get to play with data

A new pilot from EMA is starting in September to assess wether the analysis of 'raw data' by regulatory authorities improves the evaluation of marketing approva...

Forskningscenter stoppas på grund av brister – ”Väldigt allvarligt”

Forskning som bedrivs utan tillstånd. Bristande kvalitetssäkring. Personuppgifter som hanteras felaktigt. Kritiken mot arbetet på Center for Bionics and Pain Re...

Business Sweden’s new team is rolling out the blue-yellow carpet

According to Business Sweden’s life science team, the combination of substantial medical know-how and an ever-flourishing tech sector is a success factor for Sw...

KI-studie: Nässköljning kunde ge information om KOL

Förekomsten av ett visst protein i näsan kunde användas som underlag för bedömning av KOL, i en ny studie från forskare vid Karolinska institutet.

"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...

Sobi inleder nytt samarbete inom sepsis

Särläkemedelsbolaget Sobi inleder ett nytt forskningssamarbete och en klinisk studie kring en potentiell behandling vid sepsis.

“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.

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.

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...

22 miljarder – så mycket kostar det att utveckla ett nytt läkemedel

Den genomsnittliga kostnaden för Big Pharma att ta ett läkemedel hela vägen från upptäckt till lansering var i fjol 2,23 miljarder dollar, motsvarande en bra bi...

Digitala produktpass - från regelverk till konkurrensfördel

Inom EU pågår just nu en omfattande omställning mot mer cirkulära och hållbara affärsmodeller. En viktig pusselbit i detta arbete är införandet av digitala prod...

Göteborgsföretag med global ambition – Anyo Labs vinner mark i AI-racet

På femtio kvadratmeter i Göteborg sitter ett bolag som vill ta plats på en av världens hetaste tekniska arenor: AI-driven läkemedelsutveckling. ”Vi drivs mycket...

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Samuel Lagercrantz: Immunotherapy against cancer is still in its early stages

For more than 100 years, researchers have tried to target the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. They have occasionally been laughed at and ridicul...

How to avoid measurement inaccuracies due to wear

Expert tip from ZEISS.

“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...