[2] At its initial phase Biotech Sweden was published seven times a year.
The readers were mainly people working in the biotechnology medtech and pharma industry of the Nordic countries.
It also carried the largest life science web news service of the Nordic countries, www.lifesciencesweden.se, with four newsletter distributed three times a week, subscription free-of-charge.
On the website the magazine provided daily news in Swedish and a weekly news-letter covering life science news of the Nordic countries, plus also access to The Scandinavian Life Science Industry Guide, a database of all life science, medtech and labtech companies of Scandinavia.
In 2012, the magazine changed its name to Life Science Sweden and in 2013 it was sold to Mentor Communications AB.