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Plain Manila Learning
LiVeritas Bio does mass spec analysis, allegedly using machine learning. So it’s a bit interesting that they just opened a subsidiary in that machine learning hotbed known as the Philippines where they just so happen to speak English and be willing to work for $2 an hour.
It sure looks like these machines doing the learning are of the organic type.
Immature Sadness
The sperm separation company who had the audacity to name themselves DxNow has decided they should probably not stick with that moniker. They're now marketing themselves as Zymot Fertility.
Definitely a good rebrand on their end, but it does leave a trace of sadness here, what with our sense of humor of a 12 year-old.
Total Groaner
Innobation Bio stretched the biotech naming rubric to the absolute limit. In their telling, the name derives from the following:
"INgenuity and NOvelty for Biomarker & Biotherapy creATION"
If you're rightly incensed about those stupid blue and red letters, know that we would never do such a thing - this is straight from Innobation's home page.
But hey, if we never explained the genesis of our company name, this is a good time to drop an egg of knowledge on you:
"BIngO, PHones, ARe MaGic for soliloqUYs"
Strange Flex
It’s weird to put out a press release trumpeting the fact that your company lost less money than last year. But what’s even weirder is when the title says the loss was 48.8% less than the prior year.
Really? Going to the tenths place in a headline?
The best part is where you see that the net loss went from $8.6M down to $7.3M.
We are not the most mathematically-inclined people in the world, but that kinda sorta looks like a 15% reduction in loss. Considering sales were down 44%, this does not feel like something to brag about in a press release.
Lab Confirmed
In case you were curious whether AngelPharma has a lab, they do. And here are five pictures of a lab in varying stages of emptiness to prove it. Case closed. They have a lab!
Avolynt
If you're like most people, when visiting a biotech company website, you're either looking for company information, or for something to assist you in falling asleep.
Avolynt has you covered only on the latter - their whole website is a video of ocean waves washing ashore.
Is their diabetes drug any closer to US clinical trials, you might wonder?
Shhhhhhhhh...
Relax. Breathe deeply. Close your eyes...
Finish Them
Scorpion Biological Services has announced a rebrand. As they are pivoting into being more biomanufacturing-focused, a new name to emphasize that was in order. Thus they are now Scorpius Biomanufacturing.
Wait, wait, wait. 'Biomanufacturing' tracks, but why’d they go from the badass sounding Scorpion to the old-timey Latin Scorpius? Surely they know Zodiac signs don’t exactly bring forward mental images of scientific rigor.
Perplexing one there.
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