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Happy fall y’all. Or if you’re in the southern hemisphere, happy spring. Speaking of, for the six of you that might care, the third most popular sport to call itself “football” will be holding its Australian championship at 5:15 am eastern US time on Saturday. Check it out as the Melbourne Demons try to shake their 57-year championship drought when they face off against the Western Bulldogs. Since it’s so early, vegemite toast is your best bet to get the authentic experience. And probably a beer because, hey, they’re Australian, they probably drink beer with breakfast.
Triplet Check Part 2
Last week we did a check for the most common name-starting triplets in our database. (They were: BIO, GEN, PRO, CEL, MED, NEU, IMM, INT, NOV, PHA) Some guy reposted it to Twitter and suggested you could make entire company names out of those triplets. That inspired us to take another look and we found four companies whose names contained four of the triplets:
-Genyous Biomedical International
-PhageNova Bio
-Pronova BioPharma
-Pronovo Biopharma
There were also two companies whose nine-letter names were made entirely of these triplets:
-ProBioGen
-Celprogen
The useless knowledge just keeps a-comin’ from BioPharmGuy.
Addition & Attrition
We added 19, removed four this week. Summary file available on our downloads page.
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Pronounced EE-ah-cure
If your press release leads of with the pronunciation of your company’s name, you have failed at picking a name. The latest culprit is iECURE. Funniest thing is that it actually looks like it should be pronounced EE-uh-cure, not EE-ah-cure as the press release says. Then again, we wouldn’t be caught dead picking a name like that so maybe we’re just clueless.
In their logo they decided to put that i sideways for some odd reason. So that log makes it look like they're called ECURE. And for good measure they wedged a double helix in as a U. Overall pretty contrived - thumbs down. They got $50M last week to further their gene-editing dreams in Philadelphia.
Team Roast
Originally we saw this one and, in comparison to that one where people were jumping/blocked by others, it was a great example of how you’re supposed to do a team picture (except maybe lopping off those dudes’ heads – not sure why they didn’t lop of some shoes instead)
We noticed that they had some jeans/suits/dresses, which is a normal science company mixed bag. But you know what else is a mixed bag? Those hands - no one knows what to do with them. Crossed hands is clearly the dominant position, but look, you’ve got jeans guy with thumbs-out, jeans guy with thumbs-in (1991 baby!) plus jeans girl with whole hand in. Last but not least is striped pants, who we posit is using her hands to question the need for a 25th take.
Fate Therapeutics
Just announced trial results for their drug, FT538, and it demonstrated “Enhanced Serial Killing”, which was apparently good news. Guess that all depends on who you root for, now doesn't it?
Say Hello to My Little IPO
A four month-old company we’d never heard of which has no products in their drug pipeline just raised $24M in an IPO. They say they’re based out of that hotbed of biotech activity known as Miami Beach. Or rather, hotbed of “bio tech”, because that’s what it says on their LinkedIn page, and you know when someone puts a space in that word, they really know their stuff.
Don’t worry, though - their website informs us that they have partnerships to distribute their nonexistent drug products. Whew – that was going to be a real sticking point! The S-1 filing mentions ketamine, which is not your usual Miami drug, but maybe that’s a sign of progress.
If all this is not enough to set you at ease, why not head down to 1111 Lincoln Rd, Ste 500 in Miami Beach and check out their virtual address which is not an office at all. Just your standard company founded by a Stanford professor and an Imperial College London fellow based out of a Miami Beach PO box raising $24M with no technology or assets. #notmymoney
Scholar Rock
If you’re looking for a job here, their careers page wants you to know they’re allergic to dogma.
*grooooooan*
Curious, do they also categorically look down on those who cower from a challenge? Do they insist that no pigheadedness is welcome? Birdbrains need not apply?
Theranos
Dorothy Atkins still doing us a public service live-tweeting the Theranos trial. This week a whole bunch of texts between Elizabeth Holmes and her former COO/fiancé (who is being tried separately) were brought out into the courtroom. Some that were not germane to the case made for some funny reading. Here’s one time she sent him 11 texts in four minutes about his being a ‘breeze in the desert’ and ‘meant to be only together’, to which he eventually responded “ok”.
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Pandemic Planning Scrilla
The Biden administration is seeking $65B to plan for future pandemics. Throwing money at problems is always the government solution, isn’t it? Last time, with ZERO advanced planning, we had a vaccine ready a mere nine months after the pandemic struck the US, so there’s really not much room for improvement there.
The fact that we have the world’s best biotech/pharmaceutical industry is the ultimate pandemic preparedness plan. Spending $65B up front, just in case, seems excessive, especially when we’ve seen that 20% of people will totally ignore all public health recommendations anyways. All the money in the world ain’t gonna fix those fools.
Being a little more organized next time would be nice, especially when it comes to procurement and distribution, so it’s not a bad idea to actually prepare for a pandemic, but $65B seems a little unnecessary.
Waking Mice
If someone woke you up at 3:30 am and gave you some calculus problems, do you think it would be your best work? Probably not. But that’s effectively what scientists do to mice – they conduct studies mostly during the day despite mice being a generally nocturnal creature. Recent research has shown that the majority of mouse studies are conducted by day and most do not even report the time-of-day as a variable in their studies.
Not only does time-of-day likely have an effect on results, it also has an effect on reproducibility. If Lab A conducts a study at night and Lab B tries to replicate it during the day, the results are likely to be different. Hopefully there's a push to require all animal studies to report time-of-day when publishing results.
Fly High, Ladybug
This is a cool slow motion video of a ladybug taking flight. Or if you're an aphid, a video of a serial killer heading out to slaughter your family and friends.
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ETC.
On the 7th Day, Chicken Sandwiches
As BioPharmGuy traversed the Indianapolis airport last Sunday, he gazed despondently at the sad silence surrounding the Chick-fil-A. The sabbath tease of seeing that sign is a nationwide scourge – but we have some good news.
For one weekend only, this problem will be solved for a select few. For only $6.66 (and your eternal soul), you can now buy a Chick-fil-A sandwich on Sunday from some random website. Never mind such details as “where are you located” and “how will you deliver the sandwich to me”. Just have some faith in the Satanists, alright?
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