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Column: ”Cheating with pea flowers and does it matter whether you are right?”

Is it possible to forgive shortcuts or outright cheating in science - if it turns out that the researcher was ultimately right? Anna Törner discuss this topic in a column.

Rickard Sandberg on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: ”A key discovery”

The discovery that paved the way for the development of todays mRNA vaccines is the basis for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

40,000 DNA extractions daily

It's great when things run quickly: 20 minutes per extraction process and a new plate every 2.5 minutes – the Dutch company Synchron Lab Automation, in cooperat...

XNK Therapeutics tar in onkologiprofessor som vetenskaplig rådgivare

Gunilla Enblad går in som vetenskaplig rådgivare hos XNK Therapeutics. Hon ska tillsammans med Rizwan Romee, professor i medicin vid Harvard Medical School, spe...

Life Science Sweden´s international issue is on its way

A new issue of Life Science Sweden is on its way to print, packed with news, interviews and reports.

Anna Törner: The clinical trial – Periscope to reality

What happens to the patients in the clinical trial is not very interesting, writes Anna Törner in a column.

Nytt coronavirus upptäckt hos fladdermöss – tog sig förbi vaccin

Ett nytt coronavirus i levande fladdermöss har upptäckts av forskare i USA. Enligt forskarna är viruset resistent mot befintliga covidvaccin.

The physician at the tech giant: “Observations in the emergency room made my mind up”

When Nasim Farrokhnia was in third grade at school in Tehran, the capital of Iran, her father gave her a book about Marie Curie, which soon became her favourite...

Individual DNA passport could result in fewer drug side effects

You may be required to show a DNA passport when you pick up medicines at the pharmacy in the future. According to a new study, patients might suffer 30% fewer s...

Nystartade Cardo Health tar in Masha Feigelman som vice vd

Det digitala vårdbolaget Cardo Health startade som ett börsbolag under hösten 2021. Grundare är Tobias Strålin, tidigare partner på McKinsey. Nu rekryterar bola...

Orexo får ny finanschef

I september börjar Fredrik Järrsten som CFO hos läkemedelsföretaget Orexo. Han kommer även att ingå i ledningsgruppen.

The pandemic caused a reshuffle among the world’s vaccine giants – here is the new top list

Fuelled by the pandemic, the power balance in the global vaccine market has completely changed in recent years, a survey from Fierce Pharma shows

Promising Alzheimer’s study data sends Bioarctic stock soaring

The drug candidate lecanemab from Swedish company Bioarctic significantly slowed down the deterioration in patients with early on-set Alzheimer’s, according to ...

Klart för vaccinpass – men oklarheter kvarstår

En överenskommelse har nåtts om digitala covid-19-pass som ska göra det möjligt att resa fritt mellan EU:s länder i sommar.

Otrevlig parasit bildar hybrider och lurar immunförsvaret

Den lilla parasiten Trypanosoma cruzi har en otäck förmåga att orsaka allvarlig sjukdom. Nu har forskare vid Karolinska institutet kartlagt hur den lurar immuns...

She is Sweden´s new Minister of Healthcare

Today, Tuesday, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who leads the Moderate Party and the centre-right coalition in Sweden, presented the government's new mi...

Ny medicinsk chef på Cyxone

Cornel Pater blir Chief Medical Officer (CMO).

High-tech companies are increasingly focusing on health

Tech companies have been taking an interest in healthcare for many years, and this interest seems to be increasing. “It’s not a sudden shift in trend, it’s more...

Noxious parasite forms hybrids and deceives the immune system

The small parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has a nasty ability to cause serious illness. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have now mapped its ability to decei...

Första bekräftade dödsfallet i omikron i Storbritannien

Minst en person har dött i omikronvarianten i Storbritannien. Det uppger premiärminister Boris Johnson.

Upptäckten av gen bakom prostatacancer belönas med Sjöbergpriset

Arul M. Chinnaiyan tilldelas en miljon amerikanska dollar, motsvarande 9,3 miljoner svenska kronor, av Sjöbergstiftelsen för sin upptäckt av en fusionsgen som l...

FDA-godkännande för Xvivos njurtransport inför transplantationer

Xvivo, företaget som möjliggjorde transplantationen av grishjärta till en man i USA i början av året, har fått FDA-godkännande för sin transport som håller njur...

Column: ”Authentic leadership and clear mandates pave the way for more female CEOs”

”I believe that the aspect of having clear mandates and titles on the one hand and women progressing into top positions must be explored further”, Helena Strigå...