Measure blood sugar without finger pricking

The Danish entrepreneurial firm RSP Systems has developed a method to measure the blood sugar level in diabetes patients, simply by placing a fingertip on a sma...

DKK 1,3 billion for grand research

Danish Councils for Independent Research, DFF, will grant DKK 1,3 billion during 2009. Now has the application period started.

Nya verktyg hittar bakterier och virus

-Genom att prestera snabba och korrekta resultat omdefinierar vi synen på diagnostik inom infektionssjukdomar, säger företagets vd Jaakko Pellosniemi.

Reidar Rasmussen, Labmodul

Why are you going to Scanlab and Biotech Forum?

70 berörs av Nobel Biocares omorganisation

Den globala omorganisationen slår till mot Göteborgkontoret. "Diskussionerna med facket måste slutföras innan vi kan kommunicera några slutgiltiga siffror", säger bolaget.

Chalmers söker strategiska pengar

Åtta ansökningar har lämnats in för att få ta del av regeringens miljardsatsning på strategiskt viktig forskning. Dessutom utökas samarbetet med andra lärosäten.

Danish discovery could help cardiac patients

The Danish researchers have developed a component that could make live easier forpatients with heart failure.

Metabolic pro heads prefect post

The dean of the Department of Biomedicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy has appointed a new assistant prefect.

Läkemedelsstrategin är här

Regeringen har tillsammans med läkemedelsindustrin och berörda myndigheter tagit fram fem mål för effektivare och säkrare läkemedelsanvändning.

From planning stage to handshake

"Partnering is an effective tool to get in touch with the decision makers high up in an organization's administration," says Camilla Huse Bondeson at Conlega. A...

New NO product reduces diabetic pain

The Swedish medtech company Nolabs has announced that it has achieved an important milestone in the development of a new line of products.

MVAs vice vd på plats

Nu har Charlotte Ahlgren, ny vice vd för Medicon Valley Alliance tillträtt sin post.

Take off for this year's fair

More visitors than previously were preregistered when Scanlab and Biotech Forum opened today. But the future of the exhibitions and their design is uncertain.

Polymer guru new dean at DTU

The Technical University of Denmark, DTU, has appointed a well-known profile from the Polymer Center as a new dean.

Age essential when testing drugs

Anders Rane has been arguing that genes and age are both important factors in understanding how medicines affect individuals. Only last year, the EU established...

Digital hälsa här för att stanna

I USA ses Big Data, omsatt i diagnostik med hjälp av artificiell intelligens, som ett sätt att vända trenden i de skenande sjukvårdskostnaderna, skriver Jenni N...

Tillväxtbolagens kassako magrar

I tider av ekonomisk oro drabbas även den pengatätaste bransch. Det svenska riskkapitalet har minskat drastiskt sedan millennieskiftet och nu kräver riskkapital...

Think outside the... brain

Riitta Hari from the Brain Research Unit at the Helsinki University of Technology has recently stated that the mind is more than just the brain.

Abbott expands by acquisition

An acquisition gives Abbott a leadership position in another large and growing medical device segment.

Swiss allergy therapy convinces

Cytos Biotechnology presents promising results in a study of a new therapy against allergy and asthma.

Bio-Linux goes global

Recently the NEBC Bio-Linux Version 5.0 was released, a one-stop shop for bioinformatics tools in a Linux context.

Blood type decide resistance to HIV

A Canadian-Swedish research team has found a blood type molecule that increases the resistance to HIV-infections.

Årsmöte med politiskt tema

Demografi och politik stod på agendan när den svenska medtech-branschen samlades på onsdagen.

"Silverekonomin är en tillgång"