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BioPharmGuy
A few people sent a 'thank you' last week for BioPharmGuy News being a light in their (otherwise deeply dark?) Thursdays/Fridays. Happy to distribute some joy & laughter once a week to make up for the evil & tears we distribute the rest of the time.
Never thought a biotech newsletter could attract every remaining AOL user, and yet here we are with an unreasonable 112 subscribers using an AOL email. As we are a newsletter provider, we have full authority to annoy all 112 of you by shouting "you've got mail!"
Someone asked to have their company added to our directory. We said sure and let them know once it had been added. They replied “best of luck”. Oooook.
Companies Added & Removed
Did some solid company-adding this week: 34 new, 15 jettisoned
Best New Name:
Worst New Name:
You Will Be Missed:
Actokine
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Bionic Castaways
For most current implants, it’s not an enormous deal since they do not connect to the outside world. But once these things are more commonly linked to other tech (phones, watches, external monitors) what happens when the software people quit maintaining the apps?
For all the high-tech promises medical device companies are making in the implant space, they can never fully account for a decidedly old-fashioned problem – bankruptcy and commercial failure.
This is yet another reason why the medical device space will likely be dominated by a few giant companies who are almost too big to fail.
Quoin Pharmaceuticals
This company is working on rare diseases, one being Palmoplantar Keroderma. If you don’t know what that means, go get yourself a medical dictionary, which will inform you it's the thickening of skin on palms and soles of feet. While you're in there, you can further browse that same dictionary to learn that “If a patient gets difficult, you quoin ‘em”, hence the company name.
Allegra in D Major
It's a good thing Lyric Pharmaceuticals bit the dust a while back - no place for them here.
Team Roast
Call the intellectual property police - someone stole the BioPharmGuy directory layout and used it for their Team page! If you’ve ever seen our layout, you probably have two questions: Why? and Why?!?
Presenting the management team as if they’re catalogue items is pretty funny and yet, it's still hard to believe we’d never seen this style before. Know what – we approve. Rock on, RosVivo.
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The Beat Goes On
Five weeks post-transplantation and the guy who received a pig heart is still alive, if not kicking. Recovery has been slow, but as of the last update, he was planning to watch the Super Bowl. The implant has done better than pretty much anyone expected. He’s hoping to one day make it home to see his dog, Lucky. We are rooting for Pigman from a scientific standpoint, but the fact that he apparently stabbed a guy in 1988 resulting in his paralysis has kind of put a bad taste in our mouth.
Gratuitously Clean Cuisine
Remember the early days of the pandemic when we were all decontaminating our milk and Fritos? It’s pretty weird to think about that now. And it was almost certainly a total waste of time. Scientists at the University of Utah studied viral survival in mucus and concluded the viral particles don’t stand much of a chance at spreading since mucous proteins bind spike proteins.
Fresh, aerosolized snot has a much higher likelihood to infect, so avoiding that has always been a good idea. But after it dries up, it’s probably done for as far as being infectious.
The studies that came out in 2020 suggesting the virus could survive on hard surfaces for weeks on end used water as the carrying medium, which is not a realistic environment in which to find a shed virus.
Polio Returns to Africa
Wild polio exists only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so last week when Malawi announced they had found a case in a three-year old girl it was a not a welcome sign. The strain matched the Pakistani strain, so the assumption is it was imported and so not technically considered "wild". Hopefully this is a one-off deal. Last thing Africa needs is another scourge.
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ETC.
FDA Approves
Sometimes it's not so much the message, but who's delivering it that makes it delightful. Yesterday the FDA sent out a press release announcing the approval of a condom that is used to protect against STDs during a certain act that cannot lead to procreation.
There was a clinical trial and everything. Betting there are a maybe few people out there wishing they saw that recruitment flyer on campus. (For science of course!)
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