View pathology images in your iPhone

The Institute for Medical Informatics in Oslo announces a brand new iPhone application for virtual microscopy.

Just four weeks to a concept for an emergency ventilator

The lockdown in spring 2020 meant that the majority of Festo employees had to join the ranks of those working from home. Yet within the space of just four weeks...

Ny design för tuffa miljöer

Nya ROTAMETER GT1600 med robust design i rostfritt stål ersätter flera modeller.

Carl Borrebaeck – professor and serial entrepreneur with a taste for speed

Award-winning cancer researcher, the founder of many listed companies, and constantly in the academic and commercial spotlight for decades. However, Carl Borreb...

SMC lanserar världens smalaste magnetventil

Med robot-integratörer och maskinbyggare i åtanke lanserar SMC världens smalaste magnetventil. JSY:s låga vikt och små byggmått sparar energi/plats i rörliga ap...

“An entire industry is about to be wiped out”

According to Jennie Ekbeck, CEO of Umeå Biotech Incubators, Sweden risks not having any small diagnostic companies left in five years.

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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...

Alligator, Tataa, Ilya: Så valde bolagen sina namn – del 1

Att namnge ett företag kräver strategi, långsiktighet, juridiska kollar – och gärna ett mått av originalitet. Här är fem bolag inom life science med namn som st...

Column: Why there cannot be a complete cure for cancer – but there is certainly another way!

"Is there a new way we need to be thinking about how to prevent cancer?" Lucy Robertshaw reflects upon which is the smartest way to beat cancer.

The first drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s – but what does it mean for patients?

New treatments for early Alzheimer’s are bringing hope to thousands of patients and their families. The question is, who will get the treatment, how will the ri...

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...

Nordic Regulatory experts: Improving biotech chances of Succ

Why is it that so many biotech companies fail? And what are the tools needed to change that fact?

Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”

It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless differ...

How critical are the “Spermageddon” reports? – Researchers call for action

A much talked about meta-study indicates that sperm concentration in men’s seminal fluid has halved in 40 years. Experts in andrology that Life Science Sweden s...

Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?

When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely e...

Miljardinvesteringar och plantskola för 1000 bolag

UIC, Uppsala Innovation Centre, firar 20 år i år. Totalt har 1 011 startups och tillväxtföretag har fått stöd och de sammanlagda finansieringarna ligger på över...

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...

SciBase stärker ledningsgruppen

Marko Päivärinne tar plats i ledningsgruppen på medtechbolaget, som nyligen lanserat en ny produkt.

Synthetic MR avtalar med GE

Imagingföretaget licensierar ut sin mjukvara för effektivisering av magnetisk resonanstomografi, MR, till GE Healthcare.

Giulia Gaudenzi: ”Key lessons from global health research”

The world will still face major challenges in the post Covid-19 pandemic, writes Giulia Gaudenzi at the KTH Division of Nanobiotechnology at Scilifelab, in a column.

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Nya experter på Antaros

Imaging-bolaget Antaros Medical har anställt tre nya medarbetare: Olof Eriksson som Director PET Imaging, Edvin Johansson som Director MR Imaging and Modelling ...

Fluorescent bildtagning av celler

Zoe Fluorescent Cell Imager för fluorescent bildtagning styrs med en pekskärm och kan användas i dagsljus, direkt efter påslagning.