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[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS is our biotech and medical maven, who writes for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses is own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can find all of his previous articles and most recent comments on his Stock Gumshoe page.] Although the drive to […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He’s agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his past articles and most recent comments here.] The death of Mr. Chiang, who was always kind, has never set well […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about biotech and medicine for the Irregulars. He adheres to our trading restrictions, choses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. His past articles and most recent comments can be found at his Stock Gumshoe page.] Dr. Norchi called me at home this morning to provide […]
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[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for our Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions. Visit his Stock Gumshoe page for more.] Bacteria are prokaryotes. Animal cells, fungi and plants are eukaryotes. Prokaryotes tend to be acellular and […]
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[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can find his bio and his past articles on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his old articles and his most recent comments on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “Keep it quiet. (Go slow.) […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his past articles and most recent comments on his Stock Gumshoe page.] On Monday, April 24, 2017, Dr. […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his past articles and most recent comments at his Stock Gumshoe page.] In June 2016, we advanced ScyNexis […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions. To see all of his column and his latest comments, go to his Stock Gumshoe page.] [Author’s note: This commentary has been […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “Peaches come from a can They were put […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] Let’s turn our attention today, in a mild […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] Our fifth stock on this Christmas outing is […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] It’s a warm Sunday afternoon a few months […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] Remember that British group with frontman Robert Smith? […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] After the New Year, we plan to look […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] Ho ho ho! And Happy Christmas to all […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “Thanks to you I’m much obliged Such a […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. All of his past articles and most recent comments are on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “I live in the light of the bright summer […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about biotech and medicine for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics and his thoughts and opinions are his own. His previous columns and recent comments can be found on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine biotech stocks for the Gumshoe Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Visit his Stock Gumshoe page for his past articles and most recent comments.] Assessing biotechnology stocks involves use of lots of mental microscopes and magnifying lenses. But the task […]
[Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Visit his Stock Gumshoe page to see his biography, latest comments and past articles.] About 18 months ago, I came across tiny Boston-area diagnostics start-up […]
[Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trade restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all his past articles and more recent comments here.] Picture the gurbling fumaroles of Yellowstone: from the late 1990’s and on into […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS is an MD, PhD who writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, he choses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Visit his Stock Gumshoe author page to see his past columns and most recent comments.] Readers have […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS is an MD, PhD who writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, he choses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Visit his Stock Gumshoe page to see his past columns and most recent comments.] Dear Mr. Pope: […]
We’ve palavered much over the past two years about investing in makers of novel antibiotics….and had success with our long ideas Durata (now a unit of Allergan $AGN) and CellCeutix ($CTIX). Achaogen ($AKAO) remains a stock we love, and we predict investor rewards there in due course. We all know the familiar mantras here: antibiotics drive […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He choses his own topics, has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his past columns and most recent comments on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “Come on baby light my fire.” —- […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He choses his own topics, his words and opinions are his own, and he has agreed to our trading restrictions. You can see his Stock Gumshoe page here.] When I was an undergraduate student, I became a good friend of Michael D., […]
Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his biography and past articles here. In the beginning, there was a canopy, verdant and succulent, given to inky-black nights punctuated by the utterances […]
Everybody’s got to deviate from the norm. —Rush John Galsworthy wrote that the beginning and endings of human undertakings are untidy. It was never more so than in the early days of HCV, a mere 20 years ago, when a plague first called “non-A non-B hepatitis” began vexing people, progressively scarring their livers and behaving […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS is an MD and PhD who writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his past articles and recent comments here.] You’re probably getting it right by now—writing “2016” and not “2015.” […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics and his words and opinions are his own. Visit his Gumshoe page to see his articles, biography, and most recent comments]. Lots of you took the exam online (congratulations on how you did), while others took it […]
A brief column, if I may, to capture the teachable moment offered to us by the release of 52-week data from Sophiris ($SPHS). Longer-term readers recall that we first introduced Sophiris as a long investment idea on 30 November 2014. The company had taken an unusual toxin, called aerolysin, from the freshwater bacteria Aeromonas that, when activated, […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his past articles and biography here.] “Many things you hear in this room are untrue.” (sign posted in Yale-New Haven Medical Center physician cafeteria) […]
Is Zafgen Kaput?“It was like a teetering house of cards, A contortionist strumming a ukulele, A gorilla raging in someone’s attic, A car graveyard frantic to get back On the interstate highway in a tornado, Tolstoy’s beard in his mad old age, General Custer’s stuffed horse… What was? I ask myself and have no idea, But it’ll […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can read his past articles, latest comments, and bio here.] We love when readers write in, and most of the questions, even though privately put, are […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his past articles here.] “Who wants honey? As long as there’s some money?” —–“Cherub Rock,” Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream (words and […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his past articles and most recent comments here.] “Doctor doctor, what do you say, let’s put the id back in yid,” Portnoy groused to […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his past articles here.] “All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don’t say the story isn’t accurate.” —-from All the President’s […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his Stock Gumshoe page, with all of his past articles, here. Enjoy!] Welcome all! We’ll forego the food and beverages this time as many […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his previous articles and most recent comments here.] Go on, admit it: you enjoyed that rambunctious little scene in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus […]
[Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. You can find his biography and previous columns here. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] Second of Three Parts Frederick Towne Melges, M.D. The name probably doesn’t stir the memory banks of Gumshoe readers. […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions. You can see his previous articles here. Enjoy!] In 1970, splendid French filmmaker Erich Rohmer wrote and directed a nearly perfect flick: […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his past articles here. Enjoy!] Do you have quirky, enigmatic notions that hang with you? Douglas Hofstadter, writing in Godel, Escher and Bach: […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his articles archived here. Enjoy!] CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, which recently moved from Durham, NC, to Cambridge, MA, plans an initial public offering. Recent news suggests the […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. His bio, past articles, and most recent comments can be seen here. Enjoy!] OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He choses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions. Enjoy!] In his smoky baritone, singer Stuart Staples of British midlands musical act Tindersticks is bemoaning how he suspects the woman he […]
“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., Professor of Medicine , Harvard “With all his conscience and one eye askew, So false he […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. This piece is for reference. You can see all of his articles here.] For biotech Irregulars, this is a concise overview of what goes on in each phase […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for our Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. As always, he has agreed our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can find all of his previous articles here. And now, for some dim sum….] Greetings Irregulars, and welcome to Stock Gumshoe’s festive second BioDimSum shindig, a periodic round-up […]
[Ed. Note: This bonus note is by Dr. KSS, who writes about medicine and biotech stocks for our Irregulars. As with all our contributors, he chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trade restrictions. Discussion of this topic will continue under Dr. KSS’s latest full […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] It could be the premise of a tawdry unrated movie that teenage boys sneak glimpses of on Netflix when they’re home alone. […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] His tidily rhyming names perhaps destined him for fame. While Jack Kerouac’s work and popularity were before my time, his cultural and literary restlessness assure him […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. His previous columns can be found here. Enjoy!] Every New Year, a friend and I flew to Boston. She’d gone to medical school […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions.] If you get infected with CRE in your blood, your lungs, your urine, or your biliary system, what is your chance of […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. His words and opinions are his own, and he has agreed to our trading restrictions.] Want to see something really cool? A hot video clip from a steamy biotech thriller? Watch this. Better yet, when you pull up the video viewing frame, […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] Readers not familiar with Stock Gumshoe usually arrive wondering if the salivation provoked by stock promotional writers for certain companies is justified. […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. His topics, words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] It’s the second reel of conspiracy film Shooter, and Mark Wahlberg, whom government schemers are trying to frame for assassination, has just been shot twice. In the back of a stolen FBI car, […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medical topics and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his thoughts and words are his own. Enjoy!] Here we are, solidly in the postmodern 21st century, “so late in the goddam day,” as one of novelist Martin Amis’s characters says, and what […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medical topics and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his thoughts and words are his own. Enjoy!] Any discussion of cholesterol immediately turns Brobdingnagian, such are the extremes in question. Statins, which lower LDL cholesterol, are bombastically the best-selling drugs of all […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading rules and he chooses his own topics. His words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] In June 1962, women working in the dressmaking arm of a certain American textile factory were overcome with fear. Rumors began […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading rules and he chooses his own topics. His words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] Lying in bed beneath an exam lamp, my 16-year-old patient’s facial serenity belied how fervently he was kneading misbaha beads with […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. His words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] In the Saturday morning Looney Tunes many of us saw as children, one trope always stuck with me: that of the grand piano falling from way up high and crashing, splintering itself. There’s a […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about biotech stocks for the Irregulars. We have not reviewed or approved his topics or opinions, and he has agreed to our trade restrictions. Enjoy!] Twenty years ago, I was living life on an extreme slant as a medicine resident. My routine was a rut of working 36 hours, having […]
[Ed. Note: Here is the latest from Dr. KSS, who writes about health, medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and ideas are his own.] Dedicated to Cynthia Chew Choon Hoon (1959-2013). In pace requiescat. Imagine a day down the hallway of the future. You’re […]
What’s the commonest reason for admission to hospital of people 65 and over? Mull that question, as it provides context. Think of people you know. At least one probably has this condition. It’s not diabetes. It’s not heart attacks. And it is not infectious. But it kills and lots of people have it. Part II […]
[Ed. Note: Here is the latest contribution from Dr. KSS, who writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biomedical stocks. As always, he has agreed to our trading restrictions and his words and thoughts are his own.] The Belle of the Everglades How To Profit From The Cure First of Two Parts Of the many […]
A pre-emptive tease: no newsletters are yet touting this company, but like many stocks that they do tease, it is small, cheap, almost unknown, and even has the exotic appeal of being Australian. Sort of. At Stock Gumshoe we not only deconstruct pitched stocks, we find teasable stocks before the newsletters do! Let’s return to […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS, formerly knowns as karmaswimswami on our discussion threads, is here again to talk to the Irregulars about health and medicine and biotech investing ideas. As with all of our guest contributors, he has agreed to our trading restrictions and we have not reviewed, approved or screened his stocks or ideas, and […]
[ed note: Longtime commenter and reader Dr. KSS, a medical doctor and biotech investor, has agreed to share his thoughts with the Irregulars as one of our guest authors, educating us on health and medicine and sharing some of his biotech investing ideas. He has agreed to the same basic trading restrictions as other paid […]
[ed. note: Gumshoe readers have been delighted with the biotech stock discussion led by one of our readers, who has gone by the name karmaswimswami as he has shared hundreds of useful comments — so we’ve asked him to come on as a formal contributor, he’ll be sharing a column with the Irregulars and talking […]
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