Some Gains in Biotech Stocks During the War in Europe On Tuesday, Mar 8,2022 the United States’ government decided to ban the importation of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal. This decision was made to further deprive Russia from the resources that enable it to continue with the unwarranted war against Ukraine. This resolution has come at a time when the price of oil …

Intellia Therapeutics Statement on Recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Decision – In May 2012, the Regents of University of California, University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”) filed a patent application for their CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. The CVC team led by Drs. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier promptly brought these discoveries to the public, and in June 2012 published a seminal paper …

The circumstances that we find the world in today are abnormal. They are extremely intense and dangerous. We are living  an unprecedented, unexpected and inexplicable  war in Europe, which nobody seems to know how it would end up.  When it comes to the  Market, the degree of chaos, mysteries and destruction have far exceeded our ability to fairly evaluate our selected  biotech picked firms. We …

Intellia Therapeutics Loses Technology Patent and Suffers a Selloff A selloff of Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) stock occured when the U.S. Patent and trademark office ruled that CRISPR genome editing technology patent belongs to the Broad Institute. It's stating that a team of researchers led by Feng Zhang beat Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier in making CRISPR editing possible. This new . . . This content …

The Stock Market Continues to Plummet Indeed, the Stock Market continues to decline, losing investors' profits.   Each time the Market plummets it takes with it promising firms' stocks but when the biotech stocks plummet new reasons are always claimed for the decline. Today's claimed reason for the deep losses is the tension between Russia and Ukraine, which, as it happens, is not the only …

We do not dare invest in the stock market at a time when almost all the stocks, both large and small, are yo-yoing for unknown reasons. The positive criteria has all but vanished, leaving behind it unparalleled inflation that is causing enormous chaos.   Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc During this hectic atmosphere Karyopharm Therapeutics (KPTI) announced that its Phase 3 SIENDO study has met . . . …

Enanta Pharmaceuticals Expectations Expecting Dosing in a First-in-Human Study of EDP-235, an Oral 3CL Protease Inhibitor Specifically Designed for the Treatment of COVID-19 The Firm Completed Enrollment in RSVP, a Phase 2b Conducted Trial of EDP-938 in Adults With Community-Acquired Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Expects Topline Data in the Second Quarter of 2022 The Firm has Plans to Initiate a Phase 1 Study of EDP-323, …

Regenxbio Good News for wet AMD On January 10, 2022,  Regenxbio Inc. (RGNX) announced the initiation of ASCENT, the second of two Phase 3 pivotal trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of subretinal delivery of RGX-314 in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). RGX-314 is being investigated as a potential one-time gene therapy for . . . This content is for paid subscribers. …

Intellia Therapeutics Acquires Rewrite Therapeutics The acquisition is, indeed good news. By acquiring Rewrite Therapeutics, Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) has inherited a versatile DNA writing platform which enables a range of innovative genome editing strategies. The acquisition is expected to further expand Intellia’s industry-leading genome editing toolbox by adding a highly complementary platform to its existing CRISPR/Cas9 and . . . This content is for paid …

The Stock Market Today Before the end of 2021 we recognized that investors were not going to swallow what was reiterated about the strong economy. The fact was there were no criteria for a strong economy. Instead, the unparalleled inflation problem was confirmed, which, normally, is expected to negatively impact most of the criteria of a strong economy. The stock market looked to be outperforming …

We Are Back! Thanks to God. Hello to all our subscribers. Our sickness was unanticipated, making our year start in February rather than January. We will tackle the sickness later in another article. Now it is time to appreciate and offer our love and thanks from the bottom of our hearts for those who wished us well, prayed for our recovery and made it happen. …

Celularity Inc Celularity Inc. (CELU) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation for its non-genetically modified cryopreserved human placental hematopoietic stem cell-derived natural killer (NK) cell therapy, CYNK-001 created for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Headquartered in Florham Park, N.J., Celularity is a clinical . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe …

Sutro Biopharma Inc and Tasly Biopharmaceuticals Exclusive Licensing Agreement for STRO-002 In a press release from today, December 27, 2021, we learned that Sutro Biopharma Inc (

Pfizer Received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA for Paxlovid Pills for COVID-19 Good news for Pfizer (PFE), the U.S. FDA announced it has authorized the emergency use of PAXLOVID™ for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kg) with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that cause COVID-19) viral testing …

Gilead Sciences and Arcus Biosciences Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Arcus Biosciences (RCUS) announced the closing of Gilead . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

Erasca Inc Product ERAS-801 IND Cleared by FDA Erasca Inc (ERAS) announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an investigational new drug (IND) application for ERAS-801, an orally available small molecule epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor specifically designed to have high central nervous system (CNS) penetration for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (rGBM). In the meantime, the company entered into …

Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings (ARCT) is a clinical-stage mRNA medicines company of enabling technologies with an interesting pipeline of treatments and vaccines as well as other products for diseases that have yet to find treatments. Arcturus Therapeutics’ versatile RNA therapeutics platforms can be applied toward multiple types of nucleic acid medicines including messenger RNA, small interfering RNA, replicon RNA, antisense . . . This …

The Market Devastation and Resurrection of Good Biotech Firms Due to the market’s instability that we have been experiencing for a while now, we decided to look back at some biotech firms whose values tumbled and stocks tanked as a result of both internal and external bad circumstances and other reasons. The decision to retackle these firms is in our conviction that they will rebound …

AstraZeneca Long Acting Antibody Granted FDA EUA for COVID-19 Prevention AstraZeneca (AZN) product Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), a long-acting antibody (LAAB) combination received emergency use authorization (EUA) in the US for the pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) of COVID-19, with the first doses expected to become available very soon. The EUA for Evusheld was granted for . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Ionis Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca in Collaboration to Treat ATTR with Eplontersen Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) announced entering into a strategic collaboration agreement with AstraZeneca (