Trender inom life science 2025 – Del 3 ekonomin

Kommande patentutgångar driver läkemedelsbolagen att förvärva under 2025. I Sverige kan vi vara på väg mot ljusare tider och färre konkurser. Del 3 i serien med...

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...

Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?

When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely e...

The government proposes fines for pharmaceutical companies that fail to notify drug shortages in time

According to a compilation from the Swedish Medicines Agency, the number of residually notified medicines increased by 54 % in Sweden last year compared to the ...

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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...

Nytt blodtest ger hopp om diagnosmetod för ME

Ett nytt blodtest visar lovande resultat för att kunna upptäcka ME/CFS, enligt en brittisk studie. Resultaten väcker hopp om en framtida biomarkör, men metoden ...

Abbvies storsäljare inom reumatism visade fina resultat mot håravfall

Ett välkänt läkemedel mot reumatism visar tecken på att även vara en effektiv behandling mot fläckvis håravfall.

“We need to build flexible operating theatres”

Flexible operating theatres, micro-sensors on surgeons to monitor their well-being and 3D images projected onto organs to be operated on. These are a few ideas ...

Lucy Robertshaw: Did you know Stockholm wants to be in top 5 in the world for Life Sciences?

Karolinska Institutet Solna Campus has certainly become the next “Kendall Square”, writes Lucy Robertshaw in a column.

Opioidtablett på villovägar stoppar hel leverans av hjärtmedicin

Ett förlupet opioidpiller har tvingat amerikanska KVK Tech att av säkerhetsskäl återkalla en hel batch med hjärtläkemedel.

Medivir tar in nytt kapital – och aktien rasar på börsen

Huddingebaserade Medivir har beslutat om en nyemission på upp till 148 miljoner kronor. Syftet är i första hand att finansiera de pågående kliniska prövningarna...

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 ...

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...

Myndighet varnar för att skjuta upp övergången till IVDR

Ursäkterna börjar ta slut för aktörer som ännu inte inlett anpassningen till kraven i EU:s nya regelverk IVDR. Det menar Helena Dzojic, enhetschef på Läkemedels...

The first drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s – but what does it mean for patients?

New treatments for early Alzheimer’s are bringing hope to thousands of patients and their families. The question is, who will get the treatment, how will the ri...

Saving lives worldwide with low-cost molecular diagnostics

High throughput testing for many upper respiratory tract pathogens thanks to automation technology

Paolo Macchiarini in court – “The sole intent was to cure”

Paolo Macchiarini’s surgical procedure was illegal, life-threatening and caused severe and prolonged suffering to patients the prosecution claimed when the tria...

Marie Gårdmark: Do EMA and FDA talk to each other?

Of course they do! The collaboration started already in 2003, writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.

Founder of Bioarctic, Lars Lannfelt, is honoured: “I want to create something for the future”

It´s like a scientist’s dream: to be the world’s first with a drug that genuinely affects one of our major diseases. Lars Lannfelt and his company Bioarctic hav...

Roches alzheimerprogram vidare till fas III efter positiva data

Roche rapporterar positiva preliminära data från sitt alzheimerprojekt trontinemab, och ska nu gå vidare med en fas III-studie.

Ojämställt i toppen hos Uppsalas life science-företag

STUNS Life science i Uppsala har undersökt hur jämställdhet mellan man och kvinna ser ut i regionens life science-företag. Och trots att Sverige hör till ett av...

Marie Gårdmark: New incentives for orphan products on its way

"Let’s hope that the learnings from development of new therapies for rare diseases will spill over to more common conditions, orphan products paving the wave fo...

The first vaccine derived from cowpox

The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the ...