This years Nobel prize in medicine – “Changed the understanding of how genes are controlled”

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the discovery that small RNA molecules, known as microRNAs, control how genes are regulated. Understan...

Decades of research destroyed at KI – a hacker attack cannot be ruled out!

Years of research, together with half a billion Swedish krona, went up in smoke when the freezers at Karolinska Institutet overheated. The breakdown has now bee...

The Top 10 Challenges Facing Laboratories Today

Navigating the Laboratory Automation Landscape

A cluster contribution to European life science innovation and competitiveness?

Samuel Lagercrantz: ”Kommer TACO-Trumps tullavtal hålla?”

Olika bud om USA-tullar på läkemedel har skapat osäkerhet. Nu har en överenskommelse slutits, men med Donald Trump som president vet man inte säkert om den komm...

Lilly köper genterapibolag till reapris

Läkemedelsjätten Eli Lilly kliver in och köper upp Adverum Biotechnologies och dess genterapi i sen klinisk fas – en affär som sker just när det Kalifornienbase...

Utredning om läkemedelsbrist snabbas på

Tiden för den utredning som bland annat ska se över läkemedelsbrist kortas rejält. Sjukvårdsministern vill nu se över om apoteken ska kunna begränsa uttaget av ...

Pfizer’s Paxlovid is being tested against post-COVID in a major Swedish study

In a new study conducted at the Karolinska University Hospital, Pfizer’s COVID drug, Paxlovid, is now being tested in patients with post-COVID. The study is one...

Wittig – mer än 100 års erfarenhet av pålitlig gaskompression

Wittigs gaskompressorer är oftast det främsta valet vid kompression av biogas, biometan CH4, vätgas H2 och koldioxid CO2. Wittigs lamellkompressorer används mes...

Novo Nordisk tappar efter resultat från fetmastudie

Danska läkemedelsbolaget Novo Nordisk faller med runt 5 procent på börsen efter att ha aviserat resultat från fas III-studien Redefine 2 med Cagrisema.

In search of Marcel Proust's lost health

A great writer, but also a weak person and a hypochondriac. That has been the usual image of Marcel Proust. But the pediatrician and literary scholar Carl Lindg...

Novo Nordisks Wegovy säljer sämre än väntat – trots stark tillväxt

Låga förskrivningstal i USA har under en tid väckt oro för Novo Nordisks tillväxt inom fetmaläkemedel – vilket även märks i läkemedelsjättens rapport som visade...

Första läkemedlet mot förlossningsdepression får grönt ljus i EU

EU-kommissionen har för första gången godkänt ett läkemedel mot förlossningsdepression, närmare bestämt amerikanska Biogens Zurzuvae.

Anna Törner: ”If I fall seriously ill, I’ll move to Finland”

”It is both undignified and undemocratic that cancer patients must travel to Finland to uphold a façade of fairness that does not truly exist”, Anna Törner writes in a column.

Marie Gårdmark: ”Interchangeable biological medicines – soon in a pharmacy near you?”

”Generic competition is an effective way to push down drug prices, but it has not worked equally well for biosimilars. Biosimilars require more time to gain mar...

Kennedy stoppar bidrag till vaccinalliansen Gavi

USA kommer inte längre ge ekonomiskt stöd till Gavi förrän den globala vaccinalliansen ”återvunnit allmänhetens förtroende”. Det meddelar USA:s hälsominister Ro...

Bico säljer bolag inom in vitro-testning och digital patologi

Bioteknikbolaget Bico avyttrar Mattek och Visikol, som integrerades i Mattek operationellt förra året, till Sartorius Lab. Köpeskillingen är på 80 miljoner doll...

The Swedish Academy of Sciences: “We have too many researchers”

Sweden does not need more researchers, but it does need better ones. According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, funding should be distributed to favour excellence.

Rising interest in CRISPR treatments

Treatments using CRISPR technology are emerging as one of the hottest medical trends in the United States – and the FDA is doing its best to promote the development.

Forskaren in Hagastaden now inagurated

The real estate company Vectura's life science center in Hagastaden, Forskaren, is now inaugurated. The opening was attended by people from the industry, politi...

ZEISS Insights: Measurement of bone plates and screws

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Orbán's extended arm becomes health commissioner in the EU

Hungarian Olivér Várhelyi may soon become the most influential official for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry in the EU. Várhelyi, who is close to Hung...

Study: Our behaviour may have been guided by wishful thinking during the pandemic

A new study suggests that we systematically underestimate health risks if and when it suits us. This was especially true during the pandemic, as our risk assessments may have been guided by wishful thinking rather than a rational perception of the risks....

Thumbs down for lecanemab in the EU – “Very surprised”

The Azheimer's drug lecanemab has received a negative assessment from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), acc...