Ten recieve the Venture Cup West Prize

At this year´s Venture Cup West awards the 10 best business ideas in Venture Cup West 08/09 were chosen, receiving SEK 10 000 each.

Prenatal testing breakthrough

For the first time specific gene expression information from fetal cells isolated from maternal blood samples is available.

Platelet analysis in whole blood

The new Multiplate analyzer from Triolab uses impedance aggregometry to measure the effects of platelet inhibitors on whole blood.

Astrapreparat bra vid by-pass

En klinisk studie från Uppsala Clinical Research Centre visar fördelar med Astras preparat jämfört med standardbehandlingen.

Sales Representative, Applied Biosystems

"Imponerande kraftsamling gav vaccin"

Det rekordsnabba framtagandet av nya vaccin under pandemin visar vad läkemedelsindustrin – och mänskligheten – kan åstadkomma när pressen är tillräckligt stor.

Samuel Lagercrantz: Samarbete och samverkan är nyckeln till framgång

Trots att många frågor om covid-19 fortfarande är obesvarade har utvecklingen av läkemedel och vaccin gått otroligt snabbt, skriver Samuel Lagercrantz i en ledare.

EU grants project on toxicity of nanomaterials

A multinational research project has have been awarded EUR 3 358 500 from the European Commission to study the hazardous effects of engineered nanomaterials on ...

Almost 150 will leave Coloplast

The Danish medtech company Coloplast negotiates headcount reductions, with a total number of almost 150 employees.

Welcome to wonderful Copenhagen

Strategically located, the Danish capital is the focal point of one of the most dynamic regions in Northern Europe. Here are some tips on where to spend your ti...

Success fee to Bioinvent and partner

The cancer collaboration started last year. After successful technology transfer the two partner companies now receives 5 million euro from pharma giant Roche.

International models among science parks

Science parks have become a part of modern communities. With science parks in Oxford, Cambridge and Nice setting good examples, a special potential emerged. Cou...

Reidar Rasmussen, Labmodul

Why are you going to Scanlab and Biotech Forum?

BMAs: Run your own business

After graduation you must decide: be an employee or start your own business. This is not really the situation for BMAs today, but a collaborative project betwee...

“Register och journalsystem borde vara samma sak”

Sverige ett framgångsrikt land inom medicinsk forskning, men hur ser det ut i dag och hur blir vi världsbäst?

We are poor lobbyists

I doubt there has ever been a really well thought out Scandinavian campaign with intentions to really change attitudes among both the public and politicians.

Martin Bergö: "The Idea is the Thing"

Martin Bergö, 38, goes wherever ideas take him - it's a process that has led to, and resulted from, plenty of unexpected results. Those ideas have been recogniz...

Vattenfall is firing with biomass

Vattenfall will provide Denmark with electricity by means of biomass.

Norwegian describes scrapie gene

Intestinal lymphatic tissue is important for the absorption and spread of the scrapie prion, suggests a Norwegian researcher.

Hey Johannes Hedman...

... graduate of SKL and LTH, who has improved a method of forensic analysis

Brighter förlänger erbjudandet

Ger mer tid till Division By Zeros aktieägare att acceptera bolagets köperbjudande.

Nya resultat om immunförsvarets reaktion vid svår covid-19

Forskare har identifierat flera celltyper som är centrala vid immunförsvarets reaktion vid covid-19.

Next generation sequencer in an accessible format

The GS Junior System is a new benchtop-sized next generation sequencing platform.

Crafoord Prize to an American and two Japanese

Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the laureates of the Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2009.