Swedish breakthrough in Alzheimer’s: “We can finally present great data”

Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are currently among the hottest topics in drug development. Two Swedish research companies with high ambitions and successes ...

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...

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

Combining two drug delivery strategies to improve bioavailability

Danish researchers hope to increase the bioavailability of low solubility drugs.

Failed to read the fine print – lost his life’s work

A celebrated CEO and co-founder of a pioneering lab company one moment – the next, fired, kicked out and written out of the company’s history. This is the story...

SMC lanserar robust och energisnål 2-portsventil

Nya JSX från SMC är en rostfri, IP67-klassad och direktstyrd magnetventil för av/på applikationer. Olika tätningsmaterial gör ventilen lämplig för ett stort ant...

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...

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 ...

When carelessness, forgetfulness and coincidence become the researcher’s best friend

Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advanc...

Lucy Robertshaw: Are we in the perfect storm?

“Is there a perfect storm on the horizon again as elective surgeries were cancelled due to patients being admitted with Covid-19? We now have a long backlog of ...

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...

Björn Ursing: Physicians new role in AI driven healthcare

”AI could be the key we need for tomorrow’s healthcare, but it is not a stand-alone tool”, writes Björn Ursing in a column about how the role for physicians cha...

IZG10 – Handhållen eliminering av statisk elektricitet

SMC lanserar en kompakt och ergonomisk joniseringspistol för snabb neutralisering av statisk elektricitet. Det går att välja kontinuerligt flöde eller pulsblåsn...

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...

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.

SMC lanserar smarta lägesställare med SIL- och Ex-klassning

Med nya, smarta lägesställaren ND utökar SMC produktutbudet för ventilautomation inom processindustrin. ND reglerar enkel- eller dubbelverkande cylindrar och ma...

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...

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...

ALS – When the body has given up, but the brain persists

The nerve disease ALS gradually deprives the patient of control over the muscles and, eventually, also of speech. The eyes continue to function, though, and wit...

Protein match-maker

Professor Sophia Hober har fler järn i elden än de flesta. Hon är en av de mest framträdande forskarna i den viktiga kartläggningen av människans proteiner. Pro...

Drug development creates new challenges for regulators

Slang med fuktutdrivande teknik förebygger kondens i trycklu

IDK:s luftutdrivande teknik förhindrar kondens att komma in i pneumatiska verktyg. Slangen finns nu även i spiralformat utförande som förhindrar att slangen veckar sig.

Brexit looking back and looking forward

More than 3 years have passed after the vote and there is still uncertainty around the outcome although the UK December 12 election set a clearer course towards...

Central kontroll av kylvattenflöde via fördelningsblock

SMC lanserar ett kompakt fördelningsblock till kylkretsar bestående av rampmonterade digitala flödesvakter med individuell reglering och avstängning för central...