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March 14, 2024

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It took longer than expected, but just this morning we hit 20,000 subscribers. (Thanks, Paul)


To celebrate, we will take a week off, posthaste.


I know, I know. Very sad. March 28th will be silent. 218 consecutive weeks will have been a good run.


The few times I've pre-scheduled mailings and taken a full week off, I felt rejuvenated in regard to the newsletter, so no risk of this thing disappearing.


Next week is normal, March 28 is a break, then back in April.


-BPG


Weekly Update: Companies Added & Removed

86 companies added, 10 removed this week.


Made some good progress bringing in a bunch from our intake/triage list. Normally, we add companies as soon as we discover them, but when we discover a group all at once, they tend to go onto that list, and we get to them as soon as we can.


Best New Name:

X-Zell


Worst New Name:

EVQLV


You Will Be Missed:

Xact Medical


Excel summary file of adds/removals available free on our downloads page.

Industry

Wobbly Grasp of Language

Wobble Genomics announced a funding round and, in the press release about it, explained what they are working on.


They also have a website explaining their work even more in-depth.


And yet according to the press release, they remain in stealth mode.


Sure, and TikTok is still a startup.


400+

When you have a small consultancy, it can be a good pitch to tally up your collective years of experience.


Say you have three people, each with 20 years' experience. Bragging about 60+ years' experience may have some merit. 


So, when we saw this company had 400+ years of medical device experience, we had to wonder exactly how many people that was spread across. Thankfully the answer came in the next sentence: over 200.


An average of TWO years experience each? Wow, what a brag.


Team Roast - Neck and Not Neck

Oh hey, another one of them fancy cartoon team pages.


Some have necks, some don't - how did they make the neck determination?


It first seemed as though the women have necks, and the men don't. But, since the women all happen to have long hair, maybe we can reduce the neck criteria to hair length itself?


Alas, there's a long-haired woman with no neck.


No rules at all! These cartoons are total anarchy.


Delicious Restructuring

Kronos Bio determined they would have to restructure in order to extend their cash runway.


The new structuring will involve adding the tzatziki first, halving the number of tomatoes and finishing with 30% less meat. What a PITA.


On that subject, the url gyros.com is owned by a biotech company called Gyros Protein Technologies and they don't even use it - just redirect traffic to a longer url.


Seems like they'd be better off selling it for some serious drachma.


So Many Questions

In a high school journalism class, it's good to have the kids focus on the 5 W's and 1H.


But on a biotech company website menu? Probably not the best choice.


For GloboScience, the "Who" doesn't list a single person, but does say where the whos operate. Meanwhile the "Where" does not say where they operate.


Decided on this menu structure and didn't even follow it. Shame! Shame!!


Hyku Bioscience

CEO is gone

Transition for next growth phase

Replaced by a soup


Team Roast - Symphony

With a name like BIORCHESTRA, there is a certain amount of pressure on the President. After all, he's the conductor of the organization. And that being the case, one must dress the part, yes?


Here the President duly obliged, wearing his finest tux and showing off 17 letters after his name, none of which we understood, though surely he is an outstanding FRCPC and an equally great CSPQ.


We all would have all been better served if he had limited himself to seven letters: MAESTRO.

Health & Science

GLP-1 drugs 

The miracle drugs that are helping people lose weight like crazy and helping investors rake in massive moolah were originally thought to act on the human gut. But as is not infrequently the case, the drug company was wrong, and got rich anyways.


The products appear to act on the brain, not the gut, which would explain the side effects some have experienced which include less cravings for addictive substances and other behaviors.


Odd OD

If someone told you thousands of kids in America are overdosing on gummies, you'd probably think they found some marijuana edibles in their parents' bedroom.


But they are "overdosing" on something many parents are actively giving them: melatonin.


It's not good when kids have too much of a supplement, but we would argue this use of the term "overdose" is not quite legitimate since only 6.5% of the overdose victims are hospitalized after their ER visit, with an insignificant number (if any) deaths.


If we're gonna use overdose in this way, BioPharmGuy overdosed on fried shrimp one time and it was a rather unpleasant Sunday.


Note: A 42 year-old once tried to kill themselves by taking 60 melatonin pills and it didn't work.


Vaccines Good, Not That Good

Some guy in Germany decided to get vaccinated against Covid. Then he decided to do it 216 more times


Why? For “private reasons”.


Uhhhh. Ok.


In this bizarre case study, there is documented proof of 134 vaccines happening while the rest are his word. And you know what - may as well believe him.


Aside from demonstrating severe mental illness, this wild story provided medical professionals with a learning opportunity. They asked him if they could take a look at his immune system, to which he agreed with alacrity. 


They expected to see some immune fatigue from being hyperactive for such an extended period, but much to the chagrin of antivaxxers everywhere, his immune system was somehow functioning normally, surprising the doctors in the study.


The most hilarious part is during this medical investigation, he went and got ANOTHER vaccine. 217, baby!


Brand new term: Covid vaccine addict

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