Month: March 2022

News From Vertex and Cassava: Two Prohost Portfolio Selected Biotech Firms 

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Statistically Significant Results From Vertex VX-548 for Acute Pain Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) announced positive results from two Phase 2 proof-of-concept (POC) studies that investigated treatment with the selective NaV1.8 inhibitor VX-548 for acute pain following abdominoplasty surgery or bunionectomy surgery. Treatment with an initial dose of 100 mg followed by 50 mg . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Our Most Pressing Need. See Also: Important, Recent News from Incyte & Eli Lilly and Halozyme

Our Most Pressing Need Our current, most pressing need is news that makes sense. Stock Market investors are waiting for comprehensive news regarding inflation in the U.S., the rest of the world's economy and the price of crude oil. Indeed, we are all waiting to hear confirmed news promising the end of Russia's invasion into Ukraine. All the news we have been hearing up til …

Comprehensive Prohost Letter #449 – Reality

Comprehensive Prohost Letter Issues Reality The Best of words in informative texts are the smallest in number and the most truthful in contents. That’s what Prohost believes, especially in the presence of the cruel circumstances our entire planet is currently living. Last Friday, the three indexes of the stock market had their best performances since the 4th quarter of 2020. Why? We don’t know, but …

What Happened Over the Past Two Days and Biotech

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

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 …

These Dangerous World Circumstances and the Prohost Portfolio

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 …

What Happens to Intellia When the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Changes Previous Patent Decisions?

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 …