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We finally started splitting out our defunct companies into four subcategories: Rebranded, Acquired, Bankrupt & Merged. We will still keep our all-encompassing Defunct list, since we don't always have a concrete explanation as to why companies disappear.
When a company is acquired they often continue operating as a separate subsidiary of the new company, and those companies we consider to still be active and thus, not on our defunct list. So we are also creating an "All Acquisitions" list which will include all acquisitions we record, regardless of whether the company was later shuttered or not. That one will probably be ready next week.
Companies Added & Removed
Added 16 companies, removed 22 this week. Not a lot of interesting names, but we did add one called TenSixteenBio which also happened to be founded by the same person responsible for the company known as Forty Seven.
Summary file available on our downloads page.
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Pfoxer
After a federal judge declared the FDA must release all Pfizer’s Covid vaccine submission documents at a breakneck pace, Pfizer itself offered to help out. They know the FDA doesn’t have the manpower to properly redact all the documents quickly enough, so they want to do some redacting themselves.
Nice offer and all, but can you really allow the company that submitted the documents to be a neutral arbiter of what should be redactable? No, you absolutely cannot. We already have enough people blathering on about baloney government conspiracy theories – we don’t need to introduce any real conflicts of interest to a public health agency.
The Heart of the Bladder
Casana received $30M to advance their heart analyzing toilet seat. Yes, they’re working on a toilet seat that analyzes your heart. And what better way to show their commitment to the cause than to display their team members each holding toilet seats. Hover over each management member’s image to see their passion for the throne.
Toilet seat heart monitors: When wearing a smart watch is just too much effort.
By no means is this the first toilet technology company to land in the BioPharmGuy database. Clinicai is working on a toilet that does stool analysis, while Olive Diagnostics is going after urine. Who knows, maybe someday your local bar will install a pukinalysis toilet showing you the exact error in your ways.
What a time to be alive!
TenSixteenBio
Team Roast
When you want to impress people by sharing your past employers, but text just isn't enough, what’s a little copyright infringement? These guys created vision boards of their former employers' logos and dropped them right under their faces. Didn’t Theranos get in trouble for putting logos of random companies on their slideshows?
ReFormed ReForm
ReForm Biologics has Re-Formed as Comera Life Sciences. The old name did imply they were working on biologics that maybe changed shape (which is not anything like what they were not doing), whereas this new name tells us nothing. A slight improvement.
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Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) offers alternative to nylon in components for single-use systems
The global supply chains for many raw materials and finished goods are experiencing unprecedented shortages and supply interruptions, in particular, the supply of plastic resins.
Learn how polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) is being used as an alternative to nylon in the manufacture of sanitary clamps and tube clamps, which play an essential role in the production of vaccines.
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Vitamins
Given the size of the vitamin aisle at your local pharmacy, you’d think there were a lot of medical studies showing their effectiveness. But you would be wrong. Dead wrong. In fact, to date, prenatal folic acid is one of the only vitamins/supplements proven to be helpful. Most of the others just yield expensive urine.
Recently, researchers out of Harvard reported on a five-year study they did testing vitamin D & Omega-3 fish oil in people over 50. The results showed significantly lower chances of several immune diseases in the group taking vitamins vs placebos.
So, at least for vitamin D and fish oil, the benefits may outweigh the risk of choking to death on the pill.
Drug Anti-Dealers
A dynamic duo of nurses out on Long Island got entrepreneurial and sold a few fake vaccine cards to fellow criminals. And by a few fake cards, we mean about 7000. Unsurprisingly, someone didn’t agree with what this criminal enterprise was doing and tipped off the police, who completed an undercover buy.
In Your Head
More than likely, the availability of media coverage surrounding vaccines and potential side effects primed people to think more closely about whether they felt anything, and if we all think hard enough, most of us have a headache or are tired right now. Data like this are why we run placebo-controlled, double-blinded trials.
Snout Candy
Remember the pig-to-human heart transplant from a couple weeks ago? Last we heard he was still alive (the man, not the pig). But here's a report of an interesting treatment doctors had to use to keep that porcine heart in working order prior to transplantation: cocaine.
We would certainly not know personally, but according to what others have told us about it, yeah, that’ll keep your heart going at a good clip. (For a while at least.)
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