Giulia Gaudenzi: Innovation for good

"I challenge the innovator landscape to take a mental leap. Relying on innovation-solely to end inequality is not enough, therefore consciously and purposively ...

Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”

It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless differ...

Upcoming event: New updates on drugs

At Medicon Valley Alliance venues in Copenhagen/Örestad April 1 2020 the meeting New updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability takes place for the for the eighth time.

Sweden and Denmark – this is how they choose their strategies

Scandinavia’s two major powers in pharmaceutical research have developed strategies for growth in life science, and both countries aim to become world leaders.

"Are we doing business the wrong way around in the Life Science Sector?"

For the past 50 years we have created solutions for problems that we thought would solve the problems. Pharmaceuticals have created big block buster drugs which...

"Imponerande kraftsamling gav vaccin"

Det rekordsnabba framtagandet av nya vaccin under pandemin visar vad läkemedelsindustrin – och mänskligheten – kan åstadkomma när pressen är tillräckligt stor.

Samuel Lagercrantz: Collaboration and joint efforts are the key to success

Although many questions about Covid-19 remain unanswered, the development of drugs and vaccines has been incredibly rapid, writes Samuel Lagercrantz, Life Scien...

Möjligt maktskifte i de största regionerna

I Västra Götalandsregionen och i Region Stockholm har allianspartierna tillsammans med Miljöpartiet styrt de senaste fyra åren och i Region Skåne har de klassis...

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...

Optimal annealingtemperatur med gradientblock

Amplifiering. Den nya termocyklaren Multigene är utrustad med ett gradientblock för att snabbt kunna bestämma vid vilken temperatur som den tänkta PCR-produkten...

Column: Why there cannot be a complete cure for cancer – but there is certainly another way!

"Is there a new way we need to be thinking about how to prevent cancer?" Lucy Robertshaw reflects upon which is the smartest way to beat cancer.

Akademiska spolar Pcure

Nu har Akademiska gjort en större studie av enzymblocken som skulle rena läkemedelsrester redan i toalettstolen. Resultatet är nedslående.

Akademiska spolar Pcure

Nu har Akademiska gjort en större studie av enzymblocken som skulle rena läkemedelsrester redan i toalettstolen. Resultatet är nedslående.

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.

Swedish and Danish Life Science – are there still untapped synergies?

With the increasing developments in life sciences over the past decade and strong support for the sector’s strategic importance from both the Sweden and Danish ...

From spin-off to phase II

”The people there will basically become your new colleagues” – Carina Schmidt, former CEO of Athera, about working with different contractors.

New diagnostic test soon ready for the market

Hon startar en digital patientportal

”Information om hälsa är något som alla är intresserade av, och intresset har ökat under coronapandemin”, säger Penilla Gunther om sajten Fokus Patient Digital ...

Before you choose a CRO

– We are a small company and it is very important for us to maintain our core competence within development of novel nanomaterials, Tove Sivik Sonne, Head of De...

Exklusiv termocyklare med hög hastighet

Analytik Jena Life Sciences nya termocyklare har värmeblock av silver som motstår spill och som ger extra korta rampningstider och en jämn värmeväxling.

Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire

In 1995, Thomas Eldered was CEO of one of Pharmacia’s factories in the Stockholm area when the Swedish pharmaceutical giant, after a takeover, decided to move i...

Ny appartur för vanliga mätapplikationer

Med mätarna i Orion Star A210-serien från Thermo fisher scientific kan användaren bland annat bestämma pH, konduktivitet eller mängd upplöst syre i ett prov.

Proteinsekvenserare baserad på degraderingsteknologi

PPSQ-serien är namnet på en ny serie instrument för sekvensering av proteiner genom Edman-degraderingskemi.

Kombinationsblock för termocyklare

Det nya Prime Combi-Block från Techne gör att Prime-serien av termocyklare kan användas med både 0,2 millilitersrör och 0,5 millilitersrör i samma block.