Rising interest in CRISPR treatments

Treatments using CRISPR technology are emerging as one of the hottest medical trends in the United States – and the FDA is doing its best to promote the development.

Novo Nordisk to invest billions in new quality control lab

Novo Nordisk has announced plans to invest 2.9 billion Danish kroner in order to establish a new quality control laboratory in Hillerød in northern Zealand, Denmark.

Life Science Sweden heads to the Oresund region! ‒ Hello there Michael Linnell

Life Science Sweden’s The Future of Swedish Danish Life Science and New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meetings are coming up soon. We asked Mich...

Improving Nano-Structured Surfaces for Implants with Scanning Electron Microscopy

Promimic, a Swedish company specializing in the development and marketing of nano-structured surfaces for implants, heavily relies on scanning electron microscopes.

KI’s new super machine measures brain activity in real-time – “A very expensive hairdo”

Using brand-new, super-advanced equipment, researchers at Karolinska Institutet can now measure brain activity in real-time, with higher resolution than previou...

Life science trends 2025 – The economy

Upcoming patent expirations are driving pharmaceutical companies to acquire in 2025. In Sweden, we may be on our way to brighter times and fewer bankruptcies. T...

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare rejects prioritising andrology as a speciality

awareness and knowledge. But the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare says that it is not a priority.

Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse

The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala resear...

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...

Anna Törner: ”Orphan Designation – the "petite robe noire" of drug development”

It is easy to cling to various regulatory incentives, like orphan designation, and other expedited pathways, without understanding what they truly mean or wheth...

The US is leaving the WHO

The newly installed US President, Donald Trump, has issued an executive order for the US to leave the World Health Organization, WHO.

List: The coolest names in biotech

Hairy beasts, volcanic material and space strolling stand out on a US list of the best biotech company names, and on a list of the coolest names for pharmaceuti...

The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine

The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast ...

”Information security must become part of the Swedish life science strategy”

Sweden needs knowledge security to stand strong in the global competition, writes Björn Ursing in an opinion article.

Thermo Fisher-team flyttar in hos Astra Zeneca Bioventurehub – inleder samarbete

Amerikanska Thermo Fisher och Astra Zeneca Bioventurehub krokar arm i ett nytt FoU-partnerskap. Bolagen ska samlokalisera i Goco Health Innovation City, Göteborg.

Astra Zeneca avslutar tillverkning i Indien – lämnar in licensen

Astra Zeneca skyndar på planerna att avsluta sin produktion i Indien. Företaget avsäger sig nu sin tillverkningslicens i landet två år innan den skulle ha löpt ut.

Pharma Outsourcing – Find the Right Partner (2025)

The art of building a biologic drug

The first biosimilar from Xbrane Biopharma was launched earlier this year, and several more are under development at the company’s facility in Solna, Sweden. “W...

Introducing ZEISS arivis Pro 4.2

ZEISS arivis software enhances custom microscopy image analysis.

Södertäljebolag tar in 440 miljoner inför klinisk cancerstudie

Cellterapibolaget Anocca har lyckats ta in närmare 440 miljoner kronor i en ny finansieringsrunda för att stödja kommande kliniska prövningar inom bukspottkörtelcancer.

We desire talent to come here, but are we genuinely welcoming them?

Sweden faces significant challenges in creating a truly inclusive environment that makes international professionals feel welcome, valued, and able to build mea...

Norwegian cancer research companies merge

The Norwegian companies Ultimovacs and Zelluna Immunotherapy plan to merge. At the same time, it is made clear that Ultimovacs' CEO is leaving the company.

“We should avoid surgery if we can”

Since February this year, she has been Scientific Director Life Science at the Karolinska Institutet. Life Science Sweden met Anna Martling for a talk about rol...

Charlotta Gummeson leaves Sahlgrenska Science Park – “It feels sad and exciting at the same time”

forward and thinking about all the new things that there will be in a freer role,” she says to Life Science Sweden