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BioPharmGuy
With all this Delta variant talk, we got curious as to how many Greek letters were represented in our database. Here's a sampling of our Greek letter companies:
Alpha Biopharma
Beta Bionics
Gamma Biosciences
DeltaGene
Epsilon Molecular Engineering
Zeta Surgical
ETAGEN Pharma
Theta - none
Iota Pharmaceuticals
NeuroKappa Therapeutics
One Lambda
Mu - none
NuBioPharma
Xigen
Omicron - none
Pi-cardia
Rho
Sigma-Aldrich
Tau Therapeutics
Upsilon - none
AmpliPhi Biosciences
ChiRho Clin
PsiOxus Therapeutics
Omega Therapeutics
20/24 - not bad. Just googling around after creating this list, we found an Upsilon doing drug delivery research in San Diego, a Mu Therapeutics that got an SBIR grant but is otherwise a mystery and a supplement company called Omicron Pharmaceuticals. Nothing came up for Theta.
Addition & Attrition
We started what has become our annual August "deep clean". We have a number of companies who are listed as active but without much additional info. We are going through those and either filling in info, removing the company, or leaving them for next time. This week we removed 15 companies and added 12. Expect a lot more removals next week. Summary file of adds/drops on our downloads page.
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EQRx
Our favorite company that is totally going to change the very fabric of the pharmaceutical industry by getting drugs approved faster and selling them on the cheap is in the news again. After the paltry $200M they started with 19 months ago, and the equally pointless $500M they dug up in January 2021, guess they're hard up for some cash. The latest is they're merging with a $1.8B SPAC and going public. No doubt, about a month after this deal closes, they'll be selling even more stock.
Call us crazy, but a drug company with such an absurd foundational premise whose website has no real information about what they do, but does have a bunch of videos of executives talking about how drugs are expensive, seems like a risky investment bet. Their whole pitch is pretty much 'Drug prices are expensive. We will change that. Give us your money."
HeLa Lawsuits
Long ago in the pre-HIPAA days, healthcare was a whole lot sketchier. So sketchy that back in 1951 some doctors/scientists took tumor cells from a lady known as Henrietta Lacks, cultured them into an immortal cell line, then disseminated them widely to researchers around the country. People are using them to this day. It's an interesting story - if you want all the details, here's a pretty well regarded book for you.
Why are we talking about this now? Her family has finally lawyered up and they want a piece of all the commercial discoveries that were discovered on the back of Ms. Lacks' cells. Which pretty much means a huge chunk of all drug discoveries made in the past 70 years.
Hijiband
Are you a concerned parent who would like to know if your child has gotten a concussion, but not quite concerned enough to actually watch the game and/or take the kid to the doctor? No problem - just force your kid to wear this headband while they play and, depending how far away you're sitting, you might get data streamed to your phone indicating whether they may have gotten a concussion. All for only $400!
But that's not all - this product was featured on The Colbert Report as the company itself bravely states. What, having your device featured on a satirical comedy show isn't a good thing?
You know, if you're so concerned about a child getting a concussion that you'll buy a $400 device to monitor for potential times that they may have been concussed, maybe it's time to be a parent and say they shouldn't be playing that sport.
Don't Mix Drugs and Weed (Killer)
Syntec Pharma in Farmingdale, NY got hit with a Warning Letter by the FDA. Among their more run-of-the-mill transgressions was the following:
"...you kept weed killer, engine antifreeze coolant, and dry wall repair products in the same room where you stored your API and packaging components. You also comingled personal food items and unidentified products in unlabeled aluminum bags in the refrigerator where you stored your API and chemicals."
Damn, spring for an employee fridge already. And buy a shed while you're at it. Or at least hurriedly eat your lunch when the FDA shows up. What the hell.
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Virus
Remember those halcyon days back in June when it felt like the pandemic in America was petering out? Good times. Thanks to a combination of the Delta variant and vaccine decliners, we are back over 100,000 cases a day. USA! USA!
You have to figure the virus is going to run out of bodies eventually, but we're not there yet. As the American Academy of Pediatricians recently mentioned in their letter imploring the FDA to hurry up with a pediatric vaccine approval: "last week saw the largest week-over-week percentage increase in pediatric COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic."
Considering the lack of mask mandates at many (most?) schools, and the active anti-mask mandates coming from enlightened places such as the Florida governor's mansion, it's gonna be a real s**t show, real soon. Funny how some governors can violently oppose control from Washington DC, yet at the same time believe school districts can't make mask mandate decisions based on local pandemic conditions/constituents desires. Shocking, right?
Silver lining to all this is that deaths are going up more slowly than cases - probably because the medical health system has figured a lot of things out and the vaccines have made many illnesses less bad than they otherwise would have been.
You're either a hermit, previously infected, vaccinated or you're getting the Delta variant. There really are no other options anymore.
Frog Parasite
Back in the 90s there was an outbreak of frog deformities in many North American ponds. Scared people probably thought it was toxic waste dumps, aliens or some other fear of the time. Scientists did some work and discovered, as is pretty much always true, that there was a much more boring and simple explanation: parasites.
These particular parasites lived in snails, castrated said snails, escaped and infected tadpoles, burrowed into the buds that were destined to become legs and then wreaked havoc on those legs. They could stunt their growth, could make 12 legs grow or anything in between. NatGeo goes a little deeper on the topic here. Pretty impressive research work to figure it all that out.
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Featured Employer: Aether Biomachines
Not only does this company in Menlo Park, CA have a cool name, but they're doing pretty cool stuff engineering enzymes for custom uses and they could use some help.
Perhaps you have some programming skills and would be interested in their Computation Protein Engineer opening?
Or maybe if you're not big into programming, but still like computer work you could try out the Associate Engineer (Automation) job.
If you're more of a lab/bench person they also need an Enzyme Engineer with a PhD and solid experience.
Check out their job postings here.
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ETC.
Chicken Wing, Chicken Wing
Since we are about to speak of chicken wings, we are obligated to inform you that boneless chicken wings are not chicken wings, they are chicken breasts. Ok, now that we have addressed that wing-disparaging travesty, do you eat a chicken wing properly? To check, take a look at this Twitter graphic to decide.
If you're a 1 or 2, you are eating them wrong, no diggity, no doubt. If you're a 5, gotta assume you're actually starving, because eating sauce without any meat is pretty weird. The proper ways for an adult to eat wings is either a 3 or 4.
Now head on out to B-Dubs to practice your technique even though their food quality has taken a serious dive over the past few years.
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