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originally posted by: Xtrozero
I 29.97 N 45.8 E is in Ukraine near the black sea. 29.97 is also standard day pressure.
originally posted by: crankyoldman
What's interesting about this meme is the 144000 results.
originally posted by: PillarOfFire
a reply to: Caled
I'm sorry but, Why are you still eating at McDonald's?
SOL. Sun with rays
originally posted by: Justoneman
Standard pressure at sea level is 29.9212 Inches of Mercury (Hg), or 760 mm of Hg.
Daré Bioscience, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative products for women’s health, announced it entered into an agreement to acquire privately-held Microchips Biotech, Inc. Daré entered into the agreement to secure Microchips’ innovative, drug delivery technology, which it intends to evaluate as a programmable contraceptive.
MicroCHIPS, Inc. is pioneering the next generation of implantable drug delivery and biosensing devices for use in the pharmaceutical and patient monitoring markets. Our proprietary reservoir technologies include both active and passive forms and provide numerous product opportunities for our partners.
MicroCHIPS, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. The Company was founded in 1999 by Dr. John Santini, MIT Professors Michael Cima and Robert Langer, and Terry McGuire of Polaris Venture Partners. Our world-class team of nineteen includes fifteen of the best and brightest scientists and engineers.
Forbes estimates that Langer is worth about $1.1 billion, with his fortune largely made up of his Moderna shares as well as smaller holdings in publicly traded biotech startups including Frequency Therapeutics, SQZ Biotechnologies and Lyra Therapeutics. He follows in the footsteps of Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, worth $2.7 billion, and fellow professor and biotech investor Timothy Springer, worth $1.5 billion, who passed the billion-dollar mark as Moderna’s stock price soared in April and May.
Langer’s investment in Moderna is his most lucrative bet so far — and the professor has never wavered in his belief that the company’s ideas could succeed. “Beyond the promise of Moderna’s technology platform, I have also remained impressed by its committed leadership teams and staff,” he said. “So much so that I have not sold a single share of Moderna stock since the company’s founding.”
The biomedical engineer Robert Langer was one of the letter’s early signatories. In an interview, Langer — who has a role in the Lab’s administration — cited work to help amputees and to attract more diverse fellows to campus from groups that might otherwise be underrepresented, among other Ito initiatives. “To me, the tremendously good things he’s [Epstein] done for MIT and for the world — so far outweigh the bad things,” Langer said.
it turns out Moderna had an edge. Its scientists had already been collaborating with researchers from the National Institutes of Health on a vaccine for another coronavirus, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). So when Chinese researchers released the genomic sequence for the new coronavirus -- SARS-CoV-2, which causes the deadly disease known as Covid-19 -- in mid-January, they had a jump start.
Established in 2010, Moderna has never brought a product to market, or gotten any of its nine or so vaccine candidates approved for use by the FDA. It has also never brought a product to the third and final phase of a clinical trial.
At the center of it all is Stéphane Bancel, a first-time biotech CEO with an unwavering belief that Moderna’s science will work — and that employees who don’t “live the mission” have no place in the company. Confident and intense, Bancel told STAT that Moderna’s science is on track and, when it is finally made public, that it will meet the brash goal he himself has set: The new drugs will change the world.
The company has published no data supporting its vaunted technology, and it’s so secretive that some job candidates have to sign nondisclosure agreements before they come in to interview. Outside venture capitalists said Moderna has so many investors clamoring to get in that it can afford to turn away any who ask too many questions. Some small players have been given only a peek at Moderna’s data before committing millions to the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
It’s a case of the emperor’s new clothes,” said a former Moderna scientist. “They’re running an investment firm, and then hopefully it also develops a drug that’s successful.”
In 1897, Marcel Mérieux, former assistant to Louis Pasteur, founded the Mérieux Biological Institute, which later became Institut Mérieux.[4] In 1963, Alain Mérieux founded BD Mérieux, of which he became majority shareholder in 1974. BD Mérieux would later become bioMérieux.[
Mérieux first came to China in 1978 to promote human and veterinary vaccines. Actually, the Mérieux family has long been friends with China. Before China and France established diplomatic relations, Mérieux’s father-in-law Paul Berliet had exhibited the Berliet trucks in Beijing and kicked off China-France cooperation in the automotive industry.
In 2003 when SARS hit China, BioMérieux SA took an active part in China’s research on SARS control and prevention and on streptococcus, writing an admirable chapter of China-France cooperation against epidemics.
2013, President Xi Jinping put forward the initiative of a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Mérieux spoke highly of this initiative. He believes that the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) will lead Chinese medical teams to countries and regions plagued by diseases, especially communicable diseases, and in urgent need of assistance. This is a commitment that requires a global effort
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel, who is pushing experimental COVID-19 vaccines designed to alter the RNA of recipients, previously worked as CEO of BioMerieux, a firm owned by a billionaire who was instrumental in the development of the infamous virology lab in Wuhan, China.
French pharma billionaire Alain Merieux, creator of BioMerieux, once served as the Co-President of the Franco-Chinese Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Through this role, Merieux was instrumental in the development of the P4 Laboratory in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus may have been synthesized and released to devastate society.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 2, 2013—Moderna Therapeutics, the company pioneering messenger RNA therapeutics™, a revolutionary new treatment modality to enable the in vivo production of therapeutic proteins, announced today that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the company up to $25 million to research and develop its messenger RNA therapeutics™ platform as a rapid and reliable way to make antibody-producing drugs to protect against a wide range of known and unknown emerging infectious diseases and engineered biological threats.
investors.modernatx.com... id=IwAR3iySUH4wjR37BcreGlJUyQgapvDhVOWIrgeCQRveru22LBU8P6qTQlHhQ
This grant is part of a DARPA program called ADEPT: PROTECT (Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics: Prophylactic Options to Environmental and Contagious Threats). The goal is to develop platform technologies that can be deployed safely and rapidly to provide the U.S. population with near-immediate protection against emerging infectious diseases and engineered biological weapons, even in cases when the pathogen or infectious agent is unknown.
originally posted by: butcherguy
My boss told me this afternoon that he is going to be putting out an email announcing that he will be mandating that all employees get fully vaccinated.
What triggered this?
We received emails from four of our better customers this week that they will not let us on their properties unless we are fully vaccinated. We have been getting signals from other customers that they will be doing the same.
Those customers include two large hospital groups and guess who else?
Johnson and Johnson, and Pfizer.
Now I will have to get vaccinated or lose my job.
American freedom is a thing of the past.