The Swedish government is to increase its investment in cancer care

The Swedish government wants to invest more in cancer and paediatric cancer care and proposes to allocate SEK 500 million per year for this purpose in the coming years.

“A major energy boost for the entire cancer vaccine field”

The development of cancer vaccines has accelerated in recent years. Norwegian Ultimovacs is one of the companies attempting to develop a new type of treatment l...

Anna Törner: The clinical trial – Periscope to reality

What happens to the patients in the clinical trial is not very interesting, writes Anna Törner in a column.

Trådlös teknik är förstahandsvalet hos Beslag & Metall

Läs vårt senaste kundfall där Beslag & Metall har testat SMC:s trådlösa lösningar under flera år.

Medical Applications

Video about metrology solutions for medical components

Study: Cancer vaccine prolongs survival in difficult-to-treat tumour disease

According to a new study, a combination of a cancer vaccine from Norwegian company Ultimovacs and two immunotherapies significantly prolonged survival in cases ...

Beställ en audit av ditt ångsystem

Visste du att en av våra bästa tillgångar är vårt erfarna team av servicetekniker? Prata med våra ingenjörer om en audit av ditt system och identifiera förbättr...

Here are the pharmaceutical companies best prepared for AI

How well prepared are pharmaceutical companies in the field of artificial intelligence? That is what a new analysis has tried to evaluate.

Spara upp till 62% av din luftförbrukning med nya Air Management System från SMC.

Automatisk sänkning av trycket i produktionspaus minskar läckage och onödig förbrukning.

From the sea of Åland to a self-test for lithium

Four years ago, a meeting on the sea of Åland resulted in the development of a self-test for lithium levels in the blood. The hopes are that the test will be av...

Forterro Sweden

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...

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...

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...

AI upptäcker tumörsjukdom – via röstinspelning

En kort röstinspelning tillsammans med ansiktsbilder – i bägge fallen analyserade med en AI-algoritm – kan göra det möjligt att upptäcka den sällsynta tumörsjuk...

Pfizer’s Paxlovid is being tested against post-COVID in a major Swedish study

In a new study conducted at the Karolinska University Hospital, Pfizer’s COVID drug, Paxlovid, is now being tested in patients with post-COVID. The study is one...

Halv framgång för nytt ALS-läkemedel

Ett nytt läkemedel mot en sällsynt form av ALS rekommenderas av en rådgivande panel till FDA för ett villkorat godkännande i USA.

Gripdon och vakuumteknik från Gimatic – för effektiv automation

OEM Automatic erbjuder produkter från den italienska tillverkaren Gimatic, en global leverantör av automationslösningar som specialiserar sig på grip- och rörel...

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.

Nya miljardbesparingar på Pfizer

Den amerikanske läkemedelsjätten Pfizer aviserar ett sparprogram som ska sänka bolagets kostnader med 1,5 miljarder dollar, motsvarande 16 miljarder kronor, und...

The Swedish Research Council gets go-ahead for more long-term funding

Following a government decision, the Swedish Research Council will soon be able to approve ten-year grant periods for funding research infrastructure, which may...

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...

Björn Arvidsson: “We need robust and recognized ecosystems for continued competitiveness”

“We have idea carriers and excellent innovation opportunities, and now we must invest in creating ecosystems that provide them with even better growth opportuni...

Förebygg kondensation med SMC:s nya kondensdetektor

SMC introducerar kondensdetektorn PSH, en kompakt och effektiv lösning för övervakning av temperatur och luftfuktighet i pneumatiska system, med fulla kommunika...