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[Jul. 7th, 2006|09:54 pm] |
Ok, so I think I'm going to launch this in late august, once i get back and settled in. It's going to be my new project, because i don't think there's any one place to get recent industry news.
I'm not sure about the design yet:
http://www.brianloyal.com/stlbiotech/ |
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| Big week in Creve Coeur |
[Jun. 28th, 2006|11:58 am] |
It has indeed been a big week at Monsanto, or at least a big Tuesday. Yesterday, the Ag-tech giant saw three positive news happenings:
- A French court of appeal convicted 49 anti-GM foods activists of organized vandalism for destroying a Monsanto-owned field of GM maize. This overturned an earlier ruling in December claiming the group's pillaging was justified because (great quote) "the unbridled distribution of modified genes... constitutes a clear and present danger for the well-being of others". You think the corn is bad, wait until the cloned sheep get a taste for humans...
- Due to their ever-growing portion of the global seed market, Monsanto announced on Tuesday that they will be splitting shares of their stock in a 2-for-1 deal. Basically, this puts their price more in line with their S&P 500 contemporaries, down around $40 per share. Of course, the price jumped 39 cents on the announcement, so we'll see how long it takes to double up again.
- Finally, on the same day, Monsanto issued another press release announcing that it's American Seeds subsidiary will be acquiring 5 high-profile corn and soybean distributors in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana. In addition to squeezing out the competition (The release identifies the companies as representing 1.4 and 2% of the U.S. Corn and Soybean market, respectively) this will allow Monsanto to further increase their library of crop trait information.
So, all in all, a good day to be growing corn off of Lindbergh. |
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| Where's the beef? |
[Jun. 26th, 2006|09:08 am] |
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The Post-Dispatch reported today that St. Louis soy-protein developer Solae will be introducing a new faux-meat product this week at the annual meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists in Orlando. Apparantly the product, SoleCina, has a more meat-like texture compared to previous attempts. But does it taste like chicken? |
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[Jun. 26th, 2006|09:00 am] |
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It looks like J&J won the bidding for the consumer products division of Pfizer, at least according to the NY Times. Pfizer has been looking to sell the unit, which makes popular household drugs like Rolaids, Benadryl, and Rogaine, for about a year to focus more on its extremely profitable perscription drug division (Lipitor alone earned over $12.2 Billion in 2005!). The consumer unit makes up 4 percent of the company's profits, according to the article. |
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[Jun. 26th, 2006|08:57 am] |
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Dr. Bateman at WashU made some headlines over the weekend with his publication in Science about a new test for the brain amyloids involved in Alzheimer's disease. Here's the pop sci link from CNN. |
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| Basement Biotech |
[Jun. 21st, 2006|07:46 pm] |
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Paul Kedrosky wrote this today in buisiness 2.0 about what he sees as the major market potential of individual biotech work. Fun stuff. |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2006|10:03 pm] |
things i miss about my city:
-more red brick than grey concrete
-funny spellings like gravois, spoede, and florissent
-6 seasons
-crossing neighborhoods results in as many universes
-constant, inexplicable sports pride
-lack of any nationally identifiable id (the arch doesnt count)
-enourmous monuments
-rythmic highway names
-oak trees in forest park
-free museums
-only trace of french in the midwest
-still country, no matter how much we say otherwise
-small bookstores and even smaller deli's
-italian food, thai food, greek food, mexican food, and sushi - as far as possible from a national border
-the forests of the outer ring
-balmy nights at the muny
-balmy nights anywhere
-the world's best steakhouse (it says so, at least)
-enough counterculture to be interesting, not enough to become the culture
-the jazz kids
-the ska kids
-people slowly remembering urban life outside the central strip
-two weeks in april, the same in september, when life outside, inside, anywhere - is heaven
miss you |
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[Nov. 13th, 2005|11:25 pm] |
The new boondocks show on Adult Swim = my new guilty pleasure.
oh my |
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