Category: BioTech
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Monday, September 11, 2017
Could This Be The Biggest Biotech Breakthrough Of The Year? / Companies / BioTech
Someone dies of a stroke every 4 minutes in the United States. Globally, 15 million people suffer a stroke every year. It’s debilitating physically and financially—but one little-known company has developed a medical device that hopes to challenge that deadly statistic.
It’s been quietly developing this new technology for 10 years. Now it’s released updated preliminary clinical trial results, and signed a manufacturing deal which could make a significant impact in the medical device industry.
After a decade of painstaking development, we’re now nearing the end of the long road to validation, and for investors who understand this industry, this could be the critical juncture.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Biotech with Alzheimer's Focus Makes Progress on Several Fronts / Companies / BioTech
In its corporate update for Q2/17, a Canada-based biotech targeting neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease informed investors of advancements in several programs, including designation of a second validated lead compound in development.
Among ProMIS Neurosciences Inc.'s (PMN:TSE) "key accomplishments" in the quarter, the company noted it expanded its potentially "best in class amyloid-beta (Aβ) portfolio for Alzheimer's disease," according to a July 10 news release. In its oral presentation, the company stressed its emphasis on the "best in class" goal, noting that even though Biogen Inc.'s (BIIB:NASDAQ) aducanumab will be "first in class" and is progressing well in development, the ProMIS compound could be more selective and possess greater patient benefits.
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Sunday, April 23, 2017
After The Crash - Digital And Regenerative Medicine, Live for Ever! / Companies / BioTech
For most people, the doctor visit hasn’t changed in decades. Same physical waiting rooms, same paper forms to fill out, same slow, expensive tests and marginally-effective, maximally-invasive treatments. But that’s about to change, as a wave of new technologies drag medicine into the 21st century. Among the most interesting:
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
The Smart Money Is Piling Into Regenerative Medicine / Companies / BioTech
BY PATRICK COX : The Congressional Budget Office released its long-term budget outlook. This report should have sparked a national discussion about societal aging, but big media largely ignored it.
Fortunately, there are signs that smart investors are hedging this failure by investing in regenerative medicine (RM).
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Wednesday, April 05, 2017
British Billionaire Jim Mellon Says Biotech Is the Best Investment Now / Companies / BioTech
BY PATRICK COX : We are in the midst of an unprecedented change. Life spans have nearly doubled since the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, recent advances in computer technology have had a huge impact on biological sciences, which means this trend will accelerate.
Still, most people think that the process of aging will go on pretty much as it is now. They’re wrong.
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Monday, March 13, 2017
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Major Funds Betting On Trump BioTech Sector / Companies / BioTech
Donald Trump's presidency is a real nitro boost for the future of the biotech sector in the U.S., says Tom Beck, editor of Portfolio Wealth Global.
Donald Trump's presidency is a massive boost to all industries, and is a real nitro boost for the future of the biotech sector in the U.S.
With 80 million baby-boomers looking to stay young and vital for a very long time, you should be making your move, and market-beating returns will be occurring from the large-cap stocks and in the small-cap sector even more so.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The Last Time This Happened, Biotech Stocks Plunged by 50% / Companies / BioTech
BY PATRICK WATSON : “They’re getting away with murder,” said Donald Trump at last week’s epic news conference.
No, he didn’t mean Russian hackers. He was talking about red-blooded American drug companies.
Trump went on: “Pharma has a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power, and there is very little bidding. We’re the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don’t bid properly, and we’re going to save billions of dollars.”
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Biotech Breakthrough Could Create A $11.4 Trillion Opportunity / Companies / BioTech
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Saturday, December 03, 2016
Can Biotech's Trump Bump Last? / Companies / BioTech
In the weeks since Donald Trump's presidential election victory, the stock markets have ridden a wave into positive—and in the case of the Dow, record-breaking—territory. The so-called Trump Bump also sent biotech indices, flaccid for much of the year, up as much as 15%. With the election now nearly a month old, and hot-button issues such as drug pricing still in the press, industry watchers have begun to weigh in on what might happen in the biotech and pharma markets when Trump takes office.
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Monday, November 21, 2016
Trump Can Fix US Economy by Embracing Biotech / Economics / BioTech
BY PATRICK COX : The presidential campaign made one fact very clear. Most of the media and public aren't focused on economic growth.
Growth powers and funds everything else. Just take a look at the enormous federal deficit and you’ll see that economic health keeps taking a back seat to short-term goals.
Yes, John Maynard Keynes made a case for using debt to stimulate the economy. But he never said anything about permanent deficits. And that is our current practice. The result is that taxpayers’ options will be curtailed in the future.
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Thursday, November 03, 2016
The Rise in Infectious Diseases Means Opportunity for Biotech Investors / Companies / BioTech
BY PATRICK COX : The CDC has expanded its count of Miami neighborhoods with verified local transmission of the Zika virus. As a result, pregnant women are taking precautions. Some have left the area. Others are donning hazmat suits.
At least one case of locally acquired Zika has been confirmed on Florida’s Gulf Coast where I live, and there are probably more. This is because most people don’t know that they’ve been infected and are carriers.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Imagin, a Better Way to Detect Bladder Cancer / Companies / BioTech
Bob Moriarty profiles Imagin Medical, a company that has developed a new way of detecting bladder cancer through endoscopes.
The most common cancers in the U.S. are hardly the most expensive to treat. More Americans come down with breast cancer and lung cancer than any other types of cancer. The worst cancer from a perspective of expense turns out to be bladder cancer that is only the 6th most prevalent form of disease.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
Great Day for Biotech Stocks / Stock-Markets / BioTech
The stock market indices rebounded smartly in the morning, but got up to overhead resistance, particularly on the Nasdaq 100, which failed several times trying to get through 4770. At that point, the S&P 500 was trailing badly. They then went into an afternoon decline, and orderly retraced channel, 5-wave decline on the S&P 500, and then dropped right back to the 2120 level it reached twice in three days. This was the third test. That was successful. It bounced a few points off that level. It was not exactly a rip-roaring rally, but, nevertheless, support held for now, with the S&P 500 having a triple bottom, and the Nasdaq 100 having a right-handed, extended V-pattern, or rising wedge. No question with overhead resistance at 4770, or thereabouts on the Nasdaq 100, as well as for starters 2140-5 zone on the S&P 500 is going to be critical going forward.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Investment in Cell and Gene Therapies Ramps Up / Companies / BioTech
After decades of disappointment, cell therapies and gene therapies are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Investors, investigators, clinicians, and patients with serious unmet needs are watching pivotal trials move into the home stretch. Yes. . .pivotal data are actually on the way.
Though the roadblocks that have held back development of cell and gene therapies since the mid-1990s have been expensive in terms of a lingering hangover with depressed valuations, investors are now looking at achievement in terms of meaningful endpoints.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Detecting Cancer With White and Blue Light / Companies / BioTech
Endoscopy is often used in the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of cancer.
X-rays and CT scans can show physical changes within the body and give information about the size, shape, and location of the changes. Endoscopes show details like color and surface texture allowing doctors to see exactly what’s going on.
If you go to a doctor exhibiting certain symptoms, endoscopy could be used to find the cause:
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Thursday, April 07, 2016
IBB (Biotech ETF) Baby Bull Market / Companies / BioTech
Here we go again. Remember when I warned traders not to short the baby bull in miners and exhorted them to not lose their position because surprises would come to the upside? Needless to say, many ignored that advice and they cost themselves dearly.
Now we have a second baby bull just getting started in Biotech. It still has a long ways to go. Yet I’m seeing some traders making the same mistakes again.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Seven Small-Cap Biotech Stocks on the Upswing 2016 / Companies / BioTech
Biotech stocks—and the stock market in general—took a dive at the beginning of 2016, headed down on macroeconomic factors such as financial instability in China. The Life Sciences Report's 2016 Small-Cap Biotech Watchlist was not immune to that movement, heading into negative territory almost from the moment the selected companies were introduced. But as the market has shown signs of rebounding, so too has the Watchlist.
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Thursday, February 04, 2016
Look North for Value-Priced Growth in Healthcare Biotech Stocks / Companies / BioTech
Canada is a wellspring for natural resources and the industries built around them. But the country also encompasses healthcare-related businesses that are growing, generating cash flow and flourishing. Bruce Campbell of StoneCastle Investment Management has managed both U.S. and Canadian portfolios, and he knows both spheres. As a hedge fund and mutual fund manager concentrating on Canadian companies, he has made a specialty in acquisitions of cash-generating healthcare companies. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Campbell discusses seven small-cap growth names, all of which have reached share-price levels that do not reflect their capacity to grow. Some may offer rare opportunities to buy at risk-mitigated value prices.
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Regenerative Medicine’s Fountain of Youth / Companies / BioTech
Aubrey de Grey a biomedical gerontologist, predicted that the first person to live to a thousand has already been born. According to de Grey the key may lie in the field of regenerative medicine.
The Webster dictionary defines biological regeneration as “the restoration or the growth by an organism of organ or tissue, that have been lost, removed or injured.”
Dr. William Haseltine CEO of Human Genome Sciences, believes thatregenerative medicine is about assisting the body to heal itself. Dr. Haseltine coined the term "regenerative medicine," to describe the expected medical revolution that, in his view, could lead to human immortality.
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