Novo Nordisks studie: Insulin en gång i veckan gav bättre effekt

Data från det danska läkemedelsbolagets Onwards-studie tyder på att insulin som ges en gång per vecka har större effekt än insulin som ges varje dag.

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KI-studie: CAR-T visade effekt mot äggstockscancer hos möss

Idag finns inga fungerande CAR-T-terapier mot solida tumörer. Men nu har forskare vid Karolinska institutet nått lovande resultat i studier med möss med äggstockscancer.

ZXP-X1 – Komplett vakuumgripdon för kollaborativa robotar

SMC släpper nu vakuumgripdonet ZXP-X1 för ett antal olika robottillverkare.

We will now publish more news in English – and offer yet another newsletter

Starting next week, Life Science Sweden will begin offering a newsletter entirely in English.

Researchers goes to the bottom of the brain

Swedish researchers have recently got new and deeper knowledge about the smallest part of the brain, the granule cells.

A growing industry in Denmark: “One new life science company a week”

The life science sector in eastern Denmark continues to grow in the number of employees, as well as the number of companies. An emerging problem is the shortage...

Elicera develops CAR-T against solid tumours – may become the first in the world

Today, there are five EU-approved CAR-T therapies, all focused on different types of blood cancer, but no one has yet succeeded in making the method work agains...

The first vaccine derived from cowpox

The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the ...

New tools to fight bacteria

Better guidelines for doctors, detailed patient journals, and national monitoring systems are some of the tools needed to combat the increasing problem of antib...

The stomach medication that became the biggest blockbuster of the 1990s

The omeprazole molecule was synthesised as early as 1979, but it took many years before the then Astra had an approved pharmaceutical. Once this happened, a tab...

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...

Omikron finns i 23 länder i Europa

I 23 länder i Europa har omikronvarianten hittats och totalt 766 personer är bekräftat smittade med varianten. I Sverige finns 23 bekräftade fall, visar siffror från ECDC.

Tablettbehandling mot håravfall godkänns i USA

Den första tablettbehandlingen mot fläckvis håravfall har fått tummen upp av den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA.

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Changeable proteins cause nerve disease

An incorrectly folded protein is one of the reasons behind the nerve disease ALS, according to new research. But the protein does not have structural errors all...

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...

Column: Repurposing as a golden ticket to approval

"Hopefully, in the end, patients will be winners by receiving on-label treatments for which benefit-risk has been properly assessed." In a column Marie Gårdmark...

Søren Bregenholt omvald som ordförande i MVA

Under Medicon Valley Alliance årsstämma fick styrelsen förnyat förtroende och valdes om.

Marie Gårdmark: Do EMA and FDA talk to each other?

Of course they do! The collaboration started already in 2003, writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.

Swedish Healthtech Company 1928 Pushing Forward

The full service analytics platform is expanding the business.

CDC varnar för stigmatisering vid postcovid

Den amerikanska smittskyddsmyndigheten, CDC, uppmanar läkare att ha ett empatiskt förhållningssätt vid behandling av patienter med postcovid.

Bioscience-möte på Karolinska samlar medicinsk forskarelit

Virologen om de mest angelägna vaccinen

Lärdomar från pandemin kan avgöra hur kommande pandemier ska bemötas – det var fokus när vaccinforskare från hela världen samlades på den årliga vaccinkongressen i Quebec.