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WuXi Apptec Transfer
US intelligence officials are suggesting CRO WuXi Apptec transferred proprietary information to a Chinese entity without client permission. The company denies having any knowledge of this happening.
If this is the work of a rogue employee, it could be viewed in a similar light as the data leaks that have plagued US pharma companies in recent years. But if this is driven by a corporate appeasement of the Chinese government, that would be quite another thing.
Too soon to tell which it is, but needless to say, an election year is not the best time for Chinese service providers to have questions arise about their American clients' trade secrets.
Shortage
CNN published an exclusive article with the revelation that during a medicine shortage, fewer people take said medicine.
Do they not have access to dictionary.com over there? Of course some people don’t have access if there isn’t enough…that’s the literal definition of a shortage!
Coming next week, a bombshell report on the wetness of water.
Someone Come Laud Me
How long after you become CEO can you stop bragging about your undergrad grades?
5 years? 10 years?
How about 30 years?
Let it go, man...
Desperation Time
Everyone knows someone who claims to be a distant relative to some famous historical figure whether it be Napoleon or Genghis Khan. (Heck, 8% of Asian men in some regions are even correct about that Genghis Khan relation.)
Playing on this theme, 23AndMe’s latest desperation move is a service which lets customers know historical figures to which they are likely related.
Great. Now we’ll have an endless barrage of annoying people telling us they're related to Julius Caesar or Joan of Arc.
You know, if you go back far enough, you’re pretty much related to everyone, so who cares. There were only 14 million people in the entire world during the late stone age. There are 16 cities with that many people now.
Trawsfynydd Transformed
Just a couple months ago we found out about Trawsfynydd Therapeutic and declared it was the worst new company name ever.
Well, our prayers have been answered and they will combine with Onconova to become the much more sanely-named Traws Pharma.
Phew!
Mpox
Been a while since a potential pandemic has hit the news so here we have a mutated version of mpox, née Monkeypox, ripping through the Congo.
Death rates are 10%, which is not quite as bad as the 50% seen with Marburg and some Ebolas, but still quite bad. More importantly, there are many cases popping up meaning it is spreading more easily than past versions.
Wonderful.
Website Archaeology: AliveGen
They may be called AliveGen, but we find that hard to believe based on the website.
Homepage is a bunch of words and a scrolling image. First thing we learn about them is they are 10 years old. Useful info.
We see a small color logo down the page, but no explanation as to why it wasn't at the top like every website in the world.
Most importantly, there is an icon at the bottom in case you want to PRINT A WEBSITE.
Oh definitely, let us preserve this high-quality information forever in paper format!
Upset by Kobayashi
There have now been five reported deaths due to a red yeast dietary supplement produced by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. It seems to have caused some sort of kidney ailment. 93 in total have been hospitalized.
How long can we let this reign of Kobayashi terror last? We need a hero to stand up to this villain.
We need Joey Chestnut.
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