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“An entire industry is about to be wiped out”
According to Jennie Ekbeck, CEO of Umeå Biotech Incubators, Sweden risks not having any small diagnostic companies left in five years.
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Elypta awarded one million USD from the Star Trek creator’s foundation
Swedish company Elypta, which develops methods for early cancer detection, has been awarded one million USD from an unexpected source: a foundation set up in me...
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Venom from the deathstalker carries radiopharmaceuticals to the brain
In order to target cancerous brain tumours with radionuclides, the problematic blood-brain barrier must first be crossed. Life Science Sweden has visited a KI r...
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Krönika: Can regulators keep up with innovation?
New technology has increased the understanding of disease mechanisms and enabled approval of products targeting small but specific patient populations; sometime...
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Avgående Jennie Ekbeck: "Nu har jag alla möjligheter"
"Det är lite osvenskt. Men jag tänker att det får bära eller brista." Så säger Jennie Ekbeck, som överraskande lämnar sin post som vd på Umeå Biotech Incubator ...
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Tablet treatment for hair loss approved in the USA
The US Drug Administration has given a thumbs up for the first tablet treatment for spotty hair loss.
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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...
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“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...
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Revealing the secrets of a part
CT inspection in automation technology at Festo.
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19 medicines in Sweden are under investigation in a major EMA inquiry
unless new evidence can be provided that they are up to standard.
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Samuel Lagercrantz: We are currently seeing medical breakthroughs in these areas
Samuel Lagercrantz, Editor in Chief of Life Science Sweden, lists three medical fields in which we are currently seeing major breakthroughs and two fields in wh...
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The impact of the recession on the Swedish medtech sector
We need health care regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, but the current recession also affects the Medtech sector.
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Confidence in childhood vaccines is in decline worldwide
Since the pandemic, confidence in vaccinating children has plummeted. In a new report, UNICEF urges world leaders to act before the situation worsens. In 52 out...
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Uppsala-based company wins important patent dispute – but the decision is subject to appeal
A US district court has ruled in favour of Orexo in a dispute over the patent protecting the Swedish company’s drug Zubsolv, developed for treating patients wit...
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On the hunt for high throughput diagnostics
Global diagnostics companies and laboratories are in a race against time to adapt testing capacity to current demand. Due to the global COVID 19 pandemic, the d...
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New diagnostic rules raise concerns
In a panel discussion, several voices from academia and the industry expressed concerns about the transition to the new regulatory framework for in-vitro diagno...
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Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients
In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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Genes from Neanderthals can affect the correct drug dosage
A fifth of all Europeans carry gene variants inherited from Neanderthals, which cause certain drugs to break down more slowly. This may have implications for th...
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We will now publish more news in English – and offer yet another newsletter
Starting next week, Life Science Sweden will begin offering a newsletter entirely in English.
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Extremely high sample throughput rates
Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling
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Stanfords rektor avgår efter anklagelser om forskningsfusk
Mitt i sommaren meddelade neuroforskaren Marc Tessier-Lavigne att han skulle lämna sin post som rektor för Stanford efter anklagelser om manipulerade studiedata...
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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...
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Anna Törner: To kill your darlings
Hopes were high when Anna Törner and her colleague started a study on a dietary supplement that seemed unbelievably good. “Enthusiastically, we dreamed of excit...
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Nordic Regulatory experts: Improving biotech chances of Succ
Why is it that so many biotech companies fail? And what are the tools needed to change that fact?
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