October 27, 2022

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Did a web search for BioPharmGuy restricting the results to pdf filetypes. Was surprised by the number of people who have used our site for their content. Someone even did a Masters thesis on a biotech website improvement and showed how BioPharmGuy was that company's top referrer after search engines (and even beat out Yahoo).


That's actually true for many if not most biotech companies. Don't believe it? Check your analytics already. 


-BPG


All Grown Up

After some whiner complained about how small the font in this rag was, (you know who you are) we asked a few other subscribers if they agreed with him...and they all did.


Let us apologize for taking this long to grow up. We bumped up the font size and may go even bigger in the future. Baby steps. 


(In the meantime, CTRL+ on Windows should increase the font)


Companies Added & Removed

This week we added 36 companies and said goodbye to three. 


Best New Name:

Sinaptica Therapeutics


Worst New Name:

Plexision


Truncated Name of the Week:

Amplifica


You Will be Missed:

Zomanex


Summary file of all added and removed companies available on our downloads page. 

Industry

Presidenta Non Grata

If having your employer pay you to go drink wine is your thing, there's a biotech CEO-only event up in Sonoma tomorrow


Too bad BioPharmGuy gave himself the lowly job title, President. Fool!


Empyreans

Empyrean Neurosciences just launched, and we were surprised to hear this because it sounded familiar. We checked and that was because we list a different company called Empyrean Medical Systems.


Two Empyreans! The biotech industry is officially full of Empyreans. Please no more. Thank you.


Subscript

Last week we talked apostrophes, but here we have a different problem - a subscript company name. They are known as C2N Diagnostics.


Not as bad as an apostrophe, but very annoying to type. In fact, we can’t query our directory to see how many super/subscript company names we have, because we don’t enter them that way. To do so would be a pain in the asterisk.


C4X Discovery

No subscript here, but C4X Discovery is working to discover the next generation of small molecules. If you scroll down to the second tile on their homepage you will notice they appear to have hired Jack Sparrow to conduct this work in the Metaverse. Quick – tell Zuckerberg someone actually found a use for it!


How the hell is a VR headset gonna help improve the drug discovery process?? Or is this the modern equivalent of ping pong tables and nap pods, serving as a proxy indication for how cutting edge the work environment must be? 


Jack Sparrow was already wearing a tie/vest/jeans, aka the mullet of male fashion (business on top, party on the bottom), yet somehow that VR headset made it possible for him look even dumber. Amazing.


Surge

Not two weeks after our worst new company name was ”Surge” we just added a “Surge Therapeutics”.


They have a funky website where your mouse cursor clears the dots. Kinda fun for a minute.


Team Roast - Pharma Two B

Besides having one of the worst names in our directory, this company also has a unique management team - a six-person team who are all women. That's a rare thing in biotech. Pretty cool.


But before you get too excited about this female empowerment, make sure to check out the gender profile of the seven-man board of directors.


Amplifica

Hairy moles, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing.


Until now. 


Amplifica has studied the hairiness of moles and is using this knowledge to work on a hair loss treatment.


To the scientists who did their PhD work on mole hair physiology in order to assist bald guys: Thank you for fighting the good fight.


Kidswell

This Japanese company is isolating stem cells from Human Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth, otherwise known as baby teeth. Luckily, the tooth fairy does not visit Japan, so economic competition is not too fierce over there.


Instead, in Japan, kids throw their bottom teeth on the roof and their upper teeth in the dirt. Cheap and easy pickings for Kidswell!


Lost teeth traditions vary around the world. In France & Spain there is a mouse who comes. Burying or otherwise tossing them into nature seems to be the most common theme. Check out a few others here.

Health & Science

Covid Booster

Bivalent boosters are now FDA authorized for people ages 5+. 


Unlike with older adults, there does not seem to be incontrovertible evidence pointing in either direction when it comes to vaccinating young children. As a result, many, possibly most, parents are choosing not to further vaccinate their children against Covid.


It's hard to blame them - who wants to give medicines to kids when there is very little upside? Reducing risk from 0.012% to 0.011% or whatever is not something most people are concerned with.


Monkeypox

Hey remember this disease? A whole six people have now died from it in America. You can see the case levels have plummeted from their peak


It was and still is a disease that passes mostly from (very) intimate personal contact, so as the alarm was sounded, people could make lifestyle adjustments and/or get vaccinated if they were highly likely to be exposed. 


This is a good example of how much easier it is to control some non-respiratory infections.


Not So Noble

A Nobel Laureate has now had 17 papers retracted, corrected or otherwise flagged up for image manipulation.


Not a good look, but at least his Nobel work has been confirmed many times since publication. If work is deemed important enough to be Nobel-worthy, it’s pretty much always going to be confirmed by other scientists, so the chances of bad research leading to a Nobel are basically nil.


But even if faked research did lead to one, Nobel prizes are irrevocable. So maybe cheaters can prosper?


Plant Based != Better

US FDA authorized the first plant-based surgical mask. A lot of people caught a lot of s**t for using plant-based masks during the pandemic (cotton) so what kind of plant is this new thing made of?


Good luck figuring it out because they aren't up front about it. Probably just use random agricultural waste and process the bejeezus out of it. While hiding the product's source, their website really wants to talk about composting surgical masks. 


Oh sure, plenty of governments are going to be fine with composting medical waste. GTFO.


Plant-based or not, these are being burned or going to a landfill where there is almost no oxygen and thus little biodegradation happens. It's pretty much the same result as plastic-based masks, but a much bigger pain and quite possibly the production process is even worse for the environment. 


Bad Analogy

If you were to hear that quantum computing could lead to cancer treatment being as easy as common cold treatment, you might get excited about the amazing possibilities of software-based healthcare. 


OR.


You might realize there is NO CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD.


We want cancer cures, not symptom relief, dude.

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