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Why the world renown researcher Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns as Stanford´s president
In mid-summer, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation as President of Stanford following allegations of manipulated study data. According...
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Column: Repurposing as a golden ticket to approval
"Hopefully, in the end, patients will be winners by receiving on-label treatments for which benefit-risk has been properly assessed." In a column Marie Gårdmark...
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The perfect formula for decision-making
No one has the luxury not to take a decision, writes Helena Strigård at Swedenbio.
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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...
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Standardisation in automation
B. Braun Melsungen had a great idea and implemented it throughout the plant. Production for infusion solutions was to be largely standardised. B. Braun hoped th...
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Elicera develops CAR-T against solid tumours – may become the first in the world
Today, there are five EU-approved CAR-T therapies, all focused on different types of blood cancer, but no one has yet succeeded in making the method work agains...
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Ready-to-install solutions for the lab-on-a-chip
Design for manufacturing lab-on-a-chip devices Reducing time-to-market together
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Björn Arvidsson: ”We need to change perspective”
If you say “life science” to a person on the street and ask them to explain what it is, you will probably get no good answer. The same question to your network ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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KI’s new President: “We need to work closer together”
A closer link between research and education and a stronger “we-feeling” are aims that Annika Östman Wernerson sets out to achieve as the new President of Karol...
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The fast route to a safe insulin pen
Diabetes is on the rise worldwide with around ten million people developing the disease every year. Demand for insulin pens allowing patients to self-medicate i...
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Study: An objective diagnosis of constant tinnitus may be possible
A new method that measures brain activity during sound stimulation can make it possible to objectively diagnose and identify people who suffer from constant tin...
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Göran Stiernstedt: “We are the world’s worst at continuity”
Failed investments in primary care, an unreasonable system with online doctors and a public failure at coordinating the healthcare IT system. Göran Stiernstedt ...
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"Unclear proposal from the EU Commission on how to solve the MDR challenges"
Even before the EU regulation on medical devices (MDR) came into force, medical technology companies and doctors were concerned that it would endanger the avail...
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Anna Törner: Kalashnikovs in a new guise
Thanks to resisting European regulatory authorities, Europe has been spared the opioid epidemic. In the 1960s, the situation was the opposite as the American ph...
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The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare rejects prioritising andrology as a speciality
Male infertility can be linked to a shorter lifespan and several severe diseases, but when couples who want children are examined, the focus is on the woman. Ex...
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Helena Strigård: The rise of the community
Sweden Bio´s CEO is looking back at the last decade of development in the industry. Something has shifted in the interdependence between small and larger companies.
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The Oresund region aims at becoming Europe’s microbiome Mecca
The Medicon Valley Alliance’s ambition: Skåne and the Copenhagen region will become world leaders in microbiome research.
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A green nursery for biotech rooted in the Scanian soil
Red Glead has established itself as one of Lund’s largest companies in pharmaceutical development. Life Science Sweden went to Skåne and met two of the founders...
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Collaboration in laboratory automation
The Dutch company Synchron Lab Automation developed an automated DNA extraction system with high throughput, working very closely together with Festo. As a resu...
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Samuel Lagercrantz: Immunotherapy against cancer is still in its early stages
For more than 100 years, researchers have tried to target the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. They have occasionally been laughed at and ridicul...
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