NLS Global report

During the Christmas holidays, the automatic filling of the cryotanks with liquid nitrogen was interrupted for an unknown reason in the Neo building on the institute’s Flemingsberg campus. As a result of the failure, the temperature in 16 of 19 cryogenic tanks rose and large amounts of biological research material dating back decades have been […]

This year’s International Women and Girls in Science Day, implemented by UNESCO and UN-Women, focused on Closing the gender gap in science: Accelerating action. Despite the progress made in recent decades, still today only one in three researchers globally is a woman, describes UNESCO. This persistent gender disparity is the result of the numerous barriers […]

Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, has taken a group of eleven UK businesses specializing in advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) for a deep dive into the Swedish ecosystem. During visits to institutions like Karolinska Institutet, the KTH Royal Institute and AstraZeneca, the UK delegation got a chance to forge new collaboration partnerships with the […]

The Novo Nordisk Foundation is committing up to USD 25 million to support the early-stage development of innovative tools to prevent, diagnose and treat the most dangerous drug-resistant bacterial infections. The three-year grant will go to the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), a global non-profit public-private partnership in this space. The partnership plays a […]

For the past decade, Nordic Life Science Days (NLSDays) has been building business partnerships, highlighting innovations and showcasing all that the Nordic countries have to offer in the life science field. For its 10th anniversary, 29-30 November in Copenhagen, the planners expect to do that and more, including focusing on the latest developments in medicine […]

The speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday life has taken much of the world by surprise, but perhaps less so in the Nordic countries where much of the infrastructure already exists to accommodate the new technology.