Svenskt DNA-vaccin i fokus — "Villigheten att dela data och kompetens har varit en nyckel"

Utvecklingen av ett svenskt DNA-baserat covidvaccin som ska ge bredare immunitet mot sars-cov-2-virusets olika varianter och mutationer är på väg in i klinisk f...

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...

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.

Orion cuts 205 jobs

The Finnish company Orion has completed its statutory negotiations. By this, personnel will be reduced by about 205 in Finland.

Vitamin D is mental health aid

Vitamin D can help stave off the mental decline that can affect people in old age, a study suggests.

Less scars with new product

A new Swedish product for post surgical scar formation enters clinical development.

Ziccum får ny CFO

Frida Hjelmberg börjar som CFO den 1 januari 2021.

Virtuell doktor hjälper överviktiga

Med hjälp av en våg, en app och den virtuella doktorn Cecilia ska företaget Mando hjälpa människor att normalisera sitt ätande.

Diabetes-app hjälper patienter hålla koll

Med hjälp av en Smartphone-applikation kan patienten hålla koll på sitt blodsockervärde och snabbt dela informationen med sin läkare.

Stort intresse för digitalt möte

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...

Hey Johannes Hedman...

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

Collaboration brings next generation drugs

Wyeth and Santaris Pharma announce a new alliance to develop RNA-based medicines.

Medicult acquires embryo scanner

The Danish company Medicult signs an agreement with Novocellus to gain access to embryo selection technology.

Trio goes in for high tech medicines

The Swedish drug discovery company Beactica announces fragment-based drug discovery research collaboration with GE Healthcare and the University of Uppsala.

Athera signs production partnership

The companys novel cardiovascular product will be manufactured in Germany.

Astra Zeneca ökade intäkterna 2021

Svensk-brittiska Astra Zeneca slog förväntningarna fjärde kvartalet 2021 och ökade även intäkterna kraftigt när man ser på helåret. Företagets storsäljare 2021 ...

Glucose facilitates the use of indigo

The Finnish researcher Anne Vuorema oat the MTT Agrifood Research Finland proves in her new doctoral dissertation that glucose can serve as a reducing agent of indigo.

Innovationshubben i Matfors har haft sin första kund – "Full fart nu"

Gammal utrustning rivs ut – nya toppmoderna labb för processutveckling och analys kommer på plats. På Northx Biologics i Matfors pågår arbetet för fullt med att...

Prenatal testing breakthrough

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

Pfizer buys Swiss vaccines

Pfizer executes commercial license agreements for novel human vaccines based on the Swiss company Cytos Biotechnology's Immunodrug technology.

Danisco first with green emulsifier

A new sustainable emulsifier from Danisco meets the increasing consumer demand for ethically correct consumer goods.

Recipharm launches into biologics manufacturing

Recently a Swedish biomanufacturing facility transfers from Astrazeneca to Recipharm Biologics.

Grape extract kills cancer cells

Grapes contain potentially beneficial chemicals that can destroy cancer cells, a new research proves.