Small robots to deliver pharmaceuticals to the body

Robots that can operate inside the body and a platform that combines ultrasound with AI. These are a couple of the technologies that have qualified for a list t...

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.

EMA-granskning bekräftar risk för ny cancer efter CAR-T

CAR-T-terapier mot cancer kan i sällsynta fall ge upphov till sekundära cancersjukdomar. Det slås nu fast av den europeiska läkemedelsmyndigheten EMA, som kräve...

Ny miljonsatsning på life science i Sverige

7,7 miljoner kronor ska nu satsas på ett projekt för att underlätta identifiering och produktion av läkemedel. Bridge Sweden är namnet på projektet och är ett s...

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...

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.

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.

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.

Ossiform: Quality control of 3D printed bone implants

Ossiform chose the GOM Scan 1.

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...

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...

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...

Nya life science-strategin – ”Ska befästa Sverige som ledande”

Kliniska prövningar och precisionshälsa lyfts fram som viktiga områden i den nya nationella life science-strategin. (LÄNGRE UPPDATERAD VERSION)

Column: ”Authentic leadership and clear mandates pave the way for more female CEOs”

”I believe that the aspect of having clear mandates and titles on the one hand and women progressing into top positions must be explored further”, Helena Strigå...

Priset för Pfizers nya genterapi: 38 miljoner kronor

Pfizers genterapi Beqvez har godkänts i USA som behandling för hemofili B. Det är en engångsbehandling och priset är därefter – 3,5 miljoner dollar, motsvarande...

Carl Zeiss AB

Double up for Korbinian Löbmann

This year, Korbinian Löbmann will moderate the New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meeting in Copenhagen for the fifth time. Furthermore, he will ...

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...

AxFlow AB

Krönika: Can regulators keep up with innovation?

New technology has increased the understanding of disease mechanisms and enabled approval of products targeting small but specific patient populations; sometime...

Faster development of reliable sample handling

to integrate into the customer's platform – with standard components from Festo, a PerkinElmer® JANUS G3 workstation and a modified rotary gripper module. This ...

Träffa AxFlow på ProcessTeknik 8-10 oktober, Svenska Mässan i Göteborg

AxFlow kommer att vara på plats i monter C02:04 och ser fram emot att träffa dig och prata pumpar för just din applikation.

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...

Björn Eriksson ska utreda digitala vårdtjänster

Läkemedelsverkets generaldirektör Björn Eriksson ska utreda hur digitala vårdgivare ska bli en del av en mer sammanhållen primärvård.