Gene therapy restored hearing in children with congenital deafness

Eleven out of twelve children with congenital deafness showed improvements in a study testing Regeneron’s gene therapy for hereditary hearing loss. The U.S. com...

Top 10 biggest drug launches 2026

Two presumed sales rockets – both in obesity and type 2 diabetes – top a list of potential blockbusters expected to launch in the United States in 2026.

The FDA’s new transparency policy (Part 3)

As transparency and consistency become increasingly emphasized by the FDA, medical device manufacturers must approach their submissions with both thoroughness a...

Heart Monitoring in Breast Cancer – Essential or Excessive?

Trastuzumab and related drugs have transformed breast cancer treatment and dramatically improved survival rates. But the close cardiac monitoring required durin...

How the Nobel discovery is used in drug development

Regulatory T cells keep the immune system in check, a discovery now awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Qiang Pan Hammarström explains how t...

More than 150 jobs cut as Merck scales back vaccin production

Merck & Co, known as MSD in Europe, is hitting the brakes following a sharp decline in demand for its HPV vaccine Gardasil. Production at its facility in Durham...

New ATMP center inaugurated: “In the future, we will see cell and gene therapies in all clinics”

Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital’s new ATMP center was inaugurated in Flemingsberg, south of Stockholm. “The ATMP Center is not just a p...

Alvotech flyttar in i svenskt life sciene-kluster

Isländska Alvotech, noterade på Stockholmsbörsen, flyttar in på Campus Solna. ”Alvotech strävar efter att avsevärt expandera sin forsknings- och utvecklingsverk...

“We develop vaccines no one else is developing”

Vaccines delivered via patches rather than injections. Future solutions could fundamentally reshape global health. Meet the man leading efforts to distribute va...

Italienskt bolag köper Catalyst i storaffär

Det italienska läkemedelsbolaget Angelini Pharma köper Catalyst Pharmaceuticals och tar därmed ett stort kliv in på den amerikanska marknaden för hjärnhälsa och...

Join us for a Life Science seminar on april 9th on GoCo

Festo products and solutions are setting the stage for better health through innovative solutions for reliable medical technology and precise, reproducible labo...

Upcoming training: Introduction to ISO 15189:2022

Do you work with quality management in a medical laboratory? Don’t miss our ISO 15189:2022 online training course on May 12-13th — designed to help you understa...

Egetis säkrar 350 miljoner och förbereder USA-lansering

Stockholmsbaserade Egetis Therapeutics har tagit in 350 miljoner kronor i en övertecknad riktad nyemission. Aktien lyfte i onsdagens inledande handel.

AI automates testing of implant coatings

The medical technology group Smith+Nephew uses an AI-supported light microscope ZEISS Axio Imager to inspect coated implants.

Upcoming training: Cybersecurity standards for medical devices

This 1-day course on Cybersecurity standards for medical devices is designed to help professionals gain an understanding of the current standards within cyberse...

”AI-teknologin är här – dags för industrin att ta rygg på Läkemedelsverket”

När Läkemedelsverket, som en av de första läkemedelsmyndigheterna i Europa, lanserade sin egen generativa AI-lösning – den lokalt driftade Regulus – sattes ett ...

AI detects tumor disease – via voice recording

A short voice recording along with facial images – both analyzed with an AI algorithm – can make it possible to detect the rare tumour disease acromegaly and in...

Trender inom life science 2025 – Del 2 AI

Artificiell intelligens blir ännu bättre på att tolka data och mer multimodal. Risker med den nya tekniken diskuteras samtidigt allt mer. Del två i serien med t...

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Astra Zeneca pauses multi-million investment in the UK

Astra Zeneca has paused a planned investment worth $270 million. It is the latest pharmaceutical company to pull back on its commitments in the UK.

The top five most expensive drugs in 2025

New advanced therapeutic medicines are reaching the market, but their price tags remain exceptionally high. This year’s ranking of the most expensive drugs in t...

Södertäljebolag tar in 440 miljoner inför klinisk cancerstudie

Cellterapibolaget Anocca har lyckats ta in närmare 440 miljoner kronor i en ny finansieringsrunda för att stödja kommande kliniska prövningar inom bukspottkörtelcancer.

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Xspray tar in 130 miljoner inför USA-lansering

Forskningsbolaget Xspray Pharma genomför en företrädesemission på upp till 130 miljoner kronor. Huvudsyftet är att stödja en planerad lansering av cancerläkemed...