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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.
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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...
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Now it’s settled: The International Vaccine Institute will be located in Stockholm
The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, is establishing itself outside South Korea for the first time. Last week, the Swedish Parliament ratified the agreemen...
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Marie Gårdmark: ”The situation is not satisfactory”
”The legislative tool-box is limited, but carrots in the form of longer exclusivity has already proven successful, this has for example increased registration o...
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Lundabolag får brittiskt miljonbidrag för blodtest
Lundabolaget Prolight Diagnostics har fått ett statligt brittiskt bidrag på 17 miljoner kronor för fortsatt utveckling av ett blodtest som ska upptäcka eller ut...
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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...
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Bioarctic granted Japanese patent for Parkinson’s disease candidate
Bioarctic has been granted a Japanese patent for its antibodies targeting Parkinson’s disease.
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Gothenburg-based company acquired by Norwegian diagnostics group
Gentian Diagnostics acquires Gothenburg-based Getica.
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Svenske Martin Kulldorff bland nya vaccinrådgivare – utnämnd av Kennedy
USA:s hälsominister Robert Kennedy Jr. utsåg på onsdagen åtta nya ledamöter till CDC:s rådgivande vaccinkommitté (ACIP), efter att plötsligt ha avskedat hela de...
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Årets opinionsartiklar 2023
Nu lider 2023 mot sitt slut. Här är några av krönikorna, debattartiklarna och ledarna från det gångna året från Life Science Sweden och systertidningarna Medtec...
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Neanderthal gene variants may cause Viking disease
A new study suggests that the so-called Viking disease, which affects the hand function in many older people, may be linked to gene variants inherited from Neanderthals.
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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...
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Rickard Sandberg on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: ”A key discovery”
The discovery that paved the way for the development of todays mRNA vaccines is the basis for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Studie kopplar storsäljande läkemedel till ökad risk för ögonsjukdom
De storsäljande fetma- och diabetesläkemedlen Wegovy och Ozempic kan vara förknippade med förhöjd risk för en sällsynt ögonsjukdom, enligt en studie, vars utfor...
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Ännu ett Alzheimerläkemedel godkänt – lecanemab får konkurrens
Eli Lillys läkemedel donanemab mot Alzheimers godkändes på tisdagen av den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA. Det är det andra godkända bromsläkemedlet mot ...
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This is the future location of the new national innovation cluster
Mölndal and Goco Health Innovation City will be the site of a new national innovation cluster for advanced therapies. The business community and the Swedish gov...
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Rapid developments in AI – “All stakeholders are struggling to understand it”
Artificial intelligence is being discussed more and more, and developments in the field are moving rapidly. As the Swedish Medical Products Agency testifies, ke...
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Studie: Omtalat diabetesläkemedel kan ha effekt mot leversjukdom
Efter framgångarna inom diabetes och viktminskning – nu pekas ytterligare ett potentiellt terapiområde ut för Ozempic och andra GLP1-analoger. I en ny studie ko...
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Extremely high sample throughput rates
Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling
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Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients
In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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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...
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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.
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Novo Nordisk buys drug candidate in billion dollar deal
The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk have made an agreement with KBP Biosciences to aqcuire the hypertension drug ocedurenone for up to 1.3 billion doll...
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Faster development of reliable sample handling
Festo USA has collaborated with PerkinElmer to develop a compact sample handling solution for a global leader in manufacturing medical devices. Thanks to the cu...