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BioCharger
If you read our feature on the BioCharger last week and lamented the high asking price of $16,000 we have some great news for you. An intrepid reader saw one on Facebook marketplace for the low price of $13,000.
That's $13,000 plus a $1,000 consulting fee plus a $500 warranty plus $300 shipping. So, a mere $14,800. Big savings!
Included in the listing are some exciting pictures of people being 'treated' by this miracle. The owner used it for seven months in 2021 but got too busy after that. (Too busy to sit in a chair?)
If you can meet the seller's high-security clearance requirements and live near Denver, it's your lucky day.
*Grimace*
If you're gonna pick the name Purple Biotech, at least have the decency to use purple as an accent color. Going all teal is totally uncalled for. Downright cruel some might say.
Beardominance
You can't deny it - beards are in and they are not going anywhere. With their popularity, it's not that surprising to see all five men on a biotech management team with one.
But that leaves out the sole woman on said team. Or maybe not in this instance? Last name: Stubblefield
Parthenon Therapeutics --> Incendia
Though almost literally timeless, Parthenon Therapeutics decided their name needed to be refreshed. They landed on Incendia and brought a hot new logo. Even dropped a picture of a volcano on the homepage. Can you say theme? 8/10
(Maybe they kept the same design crew because the old logo wasn't too bad for its era either.)
Biotech Archaeology
AQ Pharmaceuticals is this week's trip into the biotech past. Website shows they have been active since 1994. And in about 2002, this website probably looked pretty cutting edge.
Most recent news published on the website is a 2007 interview with the founder. But the latest actual news is from last week.
The press release begins by mentioning the company has been operating since 2000 (what happened to 1994?) and explains a powder supplement they are working on reduced absorption of carbs by 40%. All this according to a study by Tastermonial.
Ahh yes, Tastermonial. Every PhD's third career choice after MIT & Stanford.
Fekless
Curiositome is the pretty terrible name Fekra Therapeutics has given to its drug discovery platform. And yet the landing page image is even worse than the name.
Six font sizes, five colors...one of the text lines being crooked. Who is the ad wizard responsible for dispatching their 12-year-old to photoshop a text image?
Condolences (but thanks)
Though rare, it's nice when we visit a company website, and they tell us they went out of business. This week, however, four companies let us know they shut down. How considerate!
Anyways, nice knowing y'all:
Advanced Biotechnologies
ActivX Biosciences
Cedilla Therapeutics
Oncorus
Board Refreshment (2)
For the second time, we've noticed a company announcing a "board refreshment". This new refreshment comes from IPA Therapeutics. Had to be impossible for them to pass up this phrasing.
Weird Pipeline
Like many a drug company, EydisBio has a pipeline graphic. As normal, they have various products at various stages of development, for various indications. Strange thing is they have no products. They're all TBD.
So, they don't even know what the product is, yet they know its mechanism of action, know it's in a preclinical efficacy stage and know it's targeting rheumatoid arthritis.
Freakin' soothsayers!
Darkness for Sun
Wasn’t too long ago we featured a company whose name was so similar to another, they published contact info for the other company atop their homepage.
This one is a bit different.
Seems a Sun Health Diagnostics in Florida is allegedly committing some light Covid test Medicare fraud.
Predictably, Sun Diagnostics of Maine did not appreciate people mixing up the companies, so right in the middle of the homepage is a warning making sure everyone knows “it wasn’t us!”
Now, to clarify, this problematic Sun Health Diagnostics is not to be confused with another Florida company called Sun Health Advocates, whose owner pleaded guilty to a genetic test kickback scheme in 2021.
Health care fraud: Florida's #3 export since 1965
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