First preterm infants study – a vital step for Neola

After years of developing an advanced lung monitoring system, Neola Medical has received some delightful news: permission to start its first clinical study on p...

Study: Popular diabetes treatment is not associated with thyroid cancer

Concerns raised about an association between GLP-1 analogues, used to treat diabetes and obesity, and an increased risk of thyroid cancer are not supported by a...

Ny medicinsk chef på Alligator

Immunterapibolaget Alligator Bioscience i Lund har utsett Sumeet Ambarkhane till Chief Medical Officer, CMO.

Jan Holmgren to receive award for the development of cholera vaccine

Researcher Jan Holmgren is being awarded for the development of the first effective drinkable cholera vaccine. The award is given by the International Vaccine I...

To build trust, one must be able to say “I don’t know” – whether human or AI

Will AI strengthen or break down trust? It depends on whether we can understand and accept its limitations, and our own, writes Sarah Lidé in a column.

Forskare kan ha utvecklat världens första blodprov för hjärncancer

Forskare i Storbritannien säger sig ha utvecklat ett blodprov för hjärncancer – något som aldrig tidigare funnits. Nu väntar ytterligare studier.

62-åring fick njure från gris i unik transplantation – "Återhämtar sig bra"

Amerikanska kirurger har genomfört den första transplantationen av en njure från en genmodifierad gris till en människa med njursjukdom.

How the Foreign Office will promote Swedish life science exports

The broadness and innovative strength keep Swedish life science exports strong, but the protectionist tendencies in the world are worrying, says Camilla Melland...

Medicinpriset till forskare bakom mRNA och första covidvaccinen

Årets Nobelpris i fysiologi eller medicin går till förhandstippade Katalin Karikó och Drew Weissman från University of Pennsylvania.

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She creates pharmaceuticals on a 3D printer

The correct dosage for each individual, regardless of whether the pharmaceutical is for a seriously ill child or a frail elderly person, is the mission of a wel...

Controlled Pneumatics: pushing the boundaries of pneumatics

Pressure, flow rate and movement can now be controlled very precisely, and with exactly the energy actually required. Controlled Pneumatics is the combination o...

”The importance of stratification in a statistician’s August kitchen”

Ingrid Lönnstedt writes about an experiment of her own at home and about what lessons can be learned from it, in a science column.

Sanna Wallenborg blir ny vd på Lumito

Medicinteknikbolaget Lumito har anställt Sanna Wallenborg som ny vd.

Sobi planerar EMA-ansökan efter positiva studiedata för njurbehandling

Det svenska särläkemedelsbolaget Sobi rapporterar positiva resultat från en fas III-studie med företagets läkemedelskandidat pegcetacoplan mot två sällsynta nju...

Smartcella värvar från Millipore Sigma

Biotech- och medtechbolaget Smartcella har utsett Nina Bauer till ny Chief Business Officer och Head of Smartwise.

Anna Törner: ”Mom, do you think you’ll ever get married again?”

”I realize I’m slowly descending into that familiar statistical rabbit hole, where life’s biggest uncertainties are reduced to point estimates and confidence in...

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 about them advancing their positions,” says Anna Lefevre Skjöldebrand, CEO of Swedish Medtech....

Revealing the secrets of a part

CT inspection in automation technology at Festo.

Clean solutions - Handling viscose substances with precision

Laboratories in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food technology industries are increasingly relying on automation for sample preparation. The Mo...

Ingrid Lönnstedt: ”The confidence interval and its width”

Always keep an eye on the width of your and others’ confidence intervals, writes Ingrid Lönnstedt in a science column.

KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures

A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying...

Uppsalabo vann postdok hos Astra Zeneca i internationell tävling

Nu står det klart att alla åtta finalister i Astra Zenecas tävling Postdoc Challenge tilldelas en postdoktors-tjänst hos läkemedelsföretaget. En av vinnarna är ...

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