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Heavily Orchestrated Takeover
OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio and when we saw the news, we thought, wow, they’re really acquiring a drug company and going to use scientists with industry experience to advance their goals of drug discovery. Get ready!
Then we realized Orchestra Bio and Orchestra Biomed are not the same company.
“Orchestra Bio is a platform where people and AI agents work together to advance drug programs”
Ah, so an AI company acquired an AI company. #notnews
Irrelevant
Regenerative dermatology companies are rightly interested in sharing why their advisory board members bring expertise germane to the business. Education, job experience? Yes. Sports played? No.
Robles BioCeutics leads off their PR piece on Mark Skeels by mentioning he is a former professional baseball player.
Having followed baseball for many years and not recognizing his name, we checked the best freely available baseball information resource: baseball reference.
Looks like he made it to high A ball, which is three levels below MLB.
Better than most, but not worth bragging about 32 years later. Maybe stick with the 'Skeels' that are relevant to the job.
#glorydays
Dated Name
We were given a tip that Hinge Bio had relocated at some point this year. When trying to figure out when this happened, we realized Hinge Bio is one of the least Googleable biotech names.
All the results talk about creating a profile for a certain dating app.
Whoever came up with that company name is a Bumbleing fool!
Kentucky Fried Dodo
Good news - Colossal has accelerated their dodo de-extinction timeline, meaning we will be eating dodos sooner than we thought.
Best case will still be about 10 years, but sooner is sooner.
And by the way, what Colossal did has nothing to do with birthing an animal, they just had AI analyze a bunch of genetic stuff. And that has been happening for a long time.
Doing the easy part more efficiently isn't a game changer, y'all. Artificial wombs are the real sticking point in all this de-extinction stuff.
Anyways, back to envisioning our Dod Au Vin recipe.
Funding Finale
Well, this is something you don’t see enough of - a company said they have enough funding and it's time to make money by selling something.
Wow what a concept.
Now technically, they didn't say that. They said this will fund them indefinitely.
But same thing, right?
Any Other Place
This one has been lurking since 2014 and we never heard of it, but man, what a freakin' name: Immagina Biotech.
Perhaps not pronounced how it looks but will always be pronounced that way to us.
ProAbTech
Always a sucker for a weird company name origin, we learned of ProAbTech and were filled with inspiration and joy.
Pro means professional, which is expected.
Then things derailed. In a biotech context, Ab pretty much always means 'Antibody' .
Not for this company. No, Ab stands for 'Above standard of quality'.
Weird.
And Tech doesn't stand for technology, it's 'technological innovation'. Which is just another way of saying technology, but whatever.
Bringing it all together, ProAbTech stands for:
"Professional above standard of quality technological innovation"
If that's really where the name comes from, better off not telling anyone because that is ridiculous.
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