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BioPharmGuy
In America, it started with the attempted overthrow of the constitutional republic and is ending with the mother of all Covid spikes...at least 2021 can only happen once. As the old saying goes: "May our minds follow our eyes in banishing thee forever." Hopefully 2022 has something better to offer.
As for BioPharmGuy, it was a good year here and this newsletter is a not insignificant reason for that. Thank you all for subscribing. Not one to mess with what’s working, you can look forward to another year of us ripping bad biotech websites to shreds, poking fun at management team pictures and keeping you apprised of the big/interesting news bits from biotech, health & science all while continuing to ignore boring 'news' which has become the bane of the modern attention economy.
Lastly, we totally made up that "old saying" in the first paragraph.
Weekly Directory Edits
Added six companies, removed another six this week. Not a lot of action, but still created a summary file of changes which is on the downloads page as always.
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Vuja De Sciences
Yes, that’s the name of a biotech company. For real. And if you don’t get it, the trademarked slogan on their homepage can explain it: “No more Déjà vu for cancer patients”. Yuck. 2/10
Triple Trouble
We love, love, love those websites that have a dot following your cursor around the screen. Just can’t get enough of them. In the past, we've featured ones with a blue dot and a green dot, but now we have some real innovation: a pink dot. But one simple wouldn't do...how about three dots. It’s like watching an endless game of Centipede while trying to learn what a biotech company is doing. Ideal.
2022 Christmas Gift, Perhaps?
iXpressGenes seems like a run-of-the-mill enzyme maker, but they do also offer some services and perhaps most intriguingly, “Neat Crystals”. Or at least that’s what their home page says – there was no way to add these neat crystals to our cart during the holidays. Many children are likely depressed this week due to a lack of these neat crystals in their stockings.
Aerovate
This is a publicly traded company that wants you to be able to easily calculate how much your shares are worth nowadays. All you do is enter the date/share price of your original stock purchase and it let's you know where you stand.
For example, if you purchased $16,000 worth of shares on Halloween it will let you know that you only have $10,000 left. And if you were lucky enough to have purchased those shares back on June 30 you would only have to deal with $7,000 now. Convenient!
Galmed Pharmaceuticals
We pity the person who mistypes a url at the Galmed Pharmaceuticals website. They treat you to a gruff message imploring you to head back to your abode, posthaste. How rude!
BrainsGate
BrainsGate had their neurostimulation implant rejected by FDA recently. Implantable neurostimulation device, you say? Must be a crazy high tech company – let’s head over to the website to learn more.
When you arrive, notice they have some Adobe Flash on the main page. That hasn’t worked in modern browsers for about a year now. The site is copyright 2005 but they’ve got a news item from 2014 and also one from…January 1, 1970? Damn, that’s a bit vintage for a website.
If you were hoping to see an animation of how their device works, you're currently out of luck since it appears broken, but back in the day this Israeli company offered one that was subtitled in English, Spanish, Czech or Polish. What, no Esperanto? Pretty interesting language combination there.
Guess we shouldn’t be too shocked by the rejection of their device.
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Qosina, a global supplier of single-use components, offers a comprehensive portfolio of more than 1,000 stock components for the design, development and manufacture of single-use systems. Leveraging over 40 years of experience as a trusted supplier of OEM medical components, Qosina provides a much-needed resource for bioprocess, vaccine production, and cell and gene therapy.
Our mission is to ensure security of supply and the best customer experience possible by helping our customers find, order and receive their required components quickly and accurately. We provide practical solutions to meet the changing needs of the bioprocess industry through innovation, technology and continuous improvement.
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…aaand Exhale
The James Webb Space Telescope was successfully launched on Christmas Day right about when youngsters in the eastern US were moping about not getting that Nintendo Switch they asked for. (Thanks a lot, Santa)
This telescope project is decades in the making and has been beset by many delays and cost overruns (as everything at NASA seems to be), so astronomers have been absolutely champing at the bit for some time. It will set an unbelievable new standard for deep-space infrared vision. It's very much a big deal for space fanatics, all of whom were surely chanting "don't blow up, don't blow up" throughout the launch.
Over the next month it will make its way to the second Lagrange point, which is about a million miles away from Earth. During that time, it will cool off to the point where its equipment can safely operate.
It will be orbiting the Sun beyond Earth, which conveniently allows Webb's sunshield to also act as an Earth/Moonshield - its instruments are so sensitive, Earth’s radiation could potentially affect readings.
NASA has written up the basics of the orbit, in non-scientist friendly jargon which you can read here.
Only a Year Too Late
The Biden administration announced a plan to purchase and distribute 500 million home Covid tests while requiring insurers to cover them. This, over a year after the first tests were approved. Maybe a move like this would have made sense in early 2021 when vaccines weren’t widespread, but now that vaccines are readily available and Omicron is seemingly less deadly as well as virtually unstoppable, what’s the point?
Not only are 40% of people still unvaccinated and thus pretty much begging to be Omicronned, many others who are sick have no interest in finding out if it’s Covid anyways. They're just dismissing it as a cold. How much can availability of home tests matter when so many people are willing to head out sick and/or unmasked? Only the most conscientious will bother to adhere to any strict testing rules, and the conscientious people have never been the biggest problem.
OG America
Congratulations to Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut & Massachusetts for being the top five most vaccinated states in America. New England: doing their part to make America better since 1776.
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