October 22, 2020
BioPharmGuy News
With our DASbox Mini Bioreactor System, screening and process development for up to 250 mL working volume are made easy. It enables precise control of liquid and gas flows designed for small scale vessels and comes with powerful software including build-in wizards for quick set-up and comprehensive process control.

Visit their website for more information.
BioPharmGuy

Searching old emails we came across one from a happy website visitor who found our site useful over the years. Always nice to get those - but in this case he then offered to share the list of medical device companies he had compiled. As it happened, he had copied them directly from BioPharmGuy. Classic.

Addition & Attrition
13 added, six removed. Summary file on our downloads page
Industry
Regeneron
This company's name recently came into the news after President Trump received their experimental Covid therapy. Word just came out that their antiviral treatment has been approved, just not that one. This one is for Ebola. Zaire strain to be specific. It's a mixture of three monoclonal antibodies, which are very expensive to produce. So basically the market is as big as Bill Gates wants it to be, because countries with Ebola problems can't come close to affording this. 

Dren Bio
Just got $60M and they easily have the worst new logo of the week. It looks (and sounds) like something out of an 80's video game movie. Their LinkedIn description: "San Carlos, CA based biotech developing powerful protein-based technologies to deplete bad guys in disease". Well then, appears the video game style was intentional. Hopefully they discover some sweet cheat codes and defeat the cancer boss.

Verb Surgical
Our subscribers have made it clear they love to check out a bad "team" page. So here's a team sitting on stools. Most unbelievable thing about this page? Five different stool colors. Totally impossible that a company could have five different stool colors. Unthinkable. Has to be digital manipulation. Just has to be.

Gilead
A large WHO trial for the Covid treatment Remdesivir showed it does not extend lifespans in Covid patients, while it does shorten hospital stays for some. Earlier in the year two fair prices for Remdesivir were suggested by the Institute for Clinical Economic Review: $1010-1600 if it reduced hospital stays and $4500-5000 if it saved lives. Gilead went with $3120 presuming there really was a slight mortality benefit. Do ya think they'll lower that price now that it's been shown not to extend lives? Of course not.
Health & Science
Covid
The third wave has begun, but at a more gradual pace than wave 2. In fact, each wave has come on less quickly. With all the testing related to Universities and schools, it could be we are just catching more asymptomatic cases than in the earlier waves. Here are the latest charts:

GPS Turtle Eggs
Scientists 3D-printed faux turtle eggs complete with GPS trackers inside and gave them the delightful moniker "investEGGator". They then hid them in nests on four Costa Rican beaches and followed their paths. One ended up at a bar 2km away and in another case someone actually emailed back photographs and the chain-of-custody for this illegally acquired egg. These eggs could be a useful trick to track smuggling supply chains, but as always, once the criminals find out, it will be an arms race. Or an eggs race.

New Organ
Scientists somehow discovered a new organ in the human body - a fourth set of salivary glands in the back of the throat. With all the technologies we have to peer into human bodies, all the dissections and surgeries that have taken place, this is almost beyond belief.
ETC.
Winner Winner
A man in Alberta recently picked the correct numbers in a Western Canada lottery. Twice. Normally that would be pretty amazing, but in this instance it's because he bought duplicate tickets for the same drawing. Ended up splitting the jackpot with himself - two giant checks and everything. 
Subscribe
If you were forwarded this email and would like to join our mailing list, here's our sign-up page: https://biopharmguy.com/subscribe.php
Premium Listings Always Available
Promote your Company's Listing
Check your website analytics - we are likely one of your top referrers. You can quickly double or triple those referrals with a Premium Listing. You can try it for as short as one month. Full summary of all our upgrade options available here: Promoted Listings. Reply to this email or send a message if interested.