Column: ”Cheating with pea flowers and does it matter whether you are right?”

Is it possible to forgive shortcuts or outright cheating in science - if it turns out that the researcher was ultimately right? Anna Törner discuss this topic in a column.

”Vi har börjat skala upp så fler ska få tillgång till analyser”

Mångsysslaren Richard Rosenquist Brandell har ofta jobbet i tankarna dygnet runt. Han har ett stort engagemang för precisionsmedicin och blodsjukdomar och har f...

“Everyone is screaming for talent”

Attracting talent is one of the life science industry’s major future challenges, which was one of the conclusions of the panel discussion that ended the New Hor...

Nästa generation AI kan bli OI

I höstas presenterades hur mänskliga hjärnceller i en odlingsskål lärt sig att spela Dishbrain, en variant av tv-spelet Pong. Nu tas nästa steg.

Licenspartner backar ur – lämnar tillbaka projekt till Affibody

Affibody får tillbaka de globala rättigheterna till izokibeb sedan samarbetspartnern Acelyrin avbrutit sin utveckling av programmet.

Uppsalabolag inom distansövervakning ansöker om konkurs

Åtstramningar och sparprogram hjälpte inte – nu tvingas Coala Life ansöka om konkurs.

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...

Advancing Drug Discovery by Combining Complex In-Vitro Models with AI-Powered 3D/4D Image Analysis

Free webinar organized by ZEISS.

Miljardavtal går i lås för Bioarctic – två läkemedel licensieras ut

Den amerikanska konkurrensmyndigheten FTC har godkänt ett licensavtal mellan Bristol Myers Squibb och Bioarctic. Det innebär att det svenska företaget nu får en...

Hypothesis testing versus conspiracy theory

"How do you know what is a conspiracy theory and what is a reasonable, scientifically based conclusion?" In a column, Ingrid Lönnstedt reflects on this question.

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...

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...

Blodprov för Alzheimers får genombrottsstatus i USA

Ett blodprov som utvecklas av läkemedelsföretagen Roche och Eli Lilly som stöd vid diagnosticering av Alzheimers sjukdom har nu tilldelats genombrottsstatus i USA.

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....

“Conducting research at universities is becoming more and more like working at a research hotel”

The government wants Swedish research to focus on excellence and innovation, but can the two be combined? Life Science Sweden talks to Anna Falk, a professor at...

A new special edition and a new event in Copenhagen – This is happening at Life Science Sweden 2024

The new year brings new features for the readers of Life Science Sweden.

Vd-byte i Peptonic

Peptonic Medical, som utvecklar produkter inom kvinnohälsa, möblerar om i ledningen och tillsätter Anna Linton som ny vd.

Revealing the secrets of a part

CT inspection in automation technology at Festo.

“A major energy boost for the entire cancer vaccine field”

The development of cancer vaccines has accelerated in recent years. Norwegian Ultimovacs is one of the companies attempting to develop a new type of treatment l...

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.

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“Photon counting in computed tomography is the holy grail”

Erik Fredenberg, a researcher in physics at KTH and GE, is working to implement photon-counting CT in clinics. To shorten lead times and reduce the radiation do...

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 ...