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Adulteration of MDMA in the Unregulated Market

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

Adulteration of MDMA in the Unregulated Market "Most of the concern with MDMA adulteration focuses on the plethora of other substances that have been detected in the MDMA supply. Piperazines first appeared in 2000 but saturated the market from 2008–2013, when these compounds were detected in about one-quarter (24 %) of drug items.

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Atlas Venture 2023 Year In Review

LifeSciVC

2023 couldn’t end fast enough for most of us in biopharma; its been a tough year in the capital markets, and the industry is facing it’s fair share of headwinds. We then shift to the venture ecosystem and the broader capital markets, highlighting the parallels with twenty years ago, post the genomics bubble in 2002-2003.

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Biotech Venture Ecosystem: Quick Health Check

LifeSciVC

Indeed, the public equity markets feeling somewhat buoyant for the first time in ages. With a little over 50 new startups raising capital in 4Q24, we’re back to levels not seen for nearly a decade, at the start of the biotech secular bull market in 2013-2014.

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Biotech Consolidation: Not Really Happening

LifeSciVC

Several years into the post-bubble bear market, the public biotech sector has only contracted by 4.5% Here are the data from BMO Capital Markets, looking at the changes to the overall public market company counts: Shutdowns were only 2% of the sector: declaring failure and closing up shop just hasn’t happened often.

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NANOBIOTIX Announces Pricing of Global Offering and Approval to List on NASDAQ Global Select Market

The Pharma Data

The ADSs have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and are expected to begin trading on December 11, 2020 under the ticker symbol “NBTX.” The Company’s ordinary shares are listed on the regulated market of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol “NANO.”.

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Part two: the impact of poor data quality

Drug Target Review

As a business executive at IBM Research in New York, Dr Singh led the go-to-market for IBM Watson Genomics Analytics. In 2003, he was selected by EE Times as one of the top 13 most influential people in the semiconductor industry. He was also Vice President and Head of the Microbiome Division at Eagle Genomics Ltd, in Cambridge.

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Kickstarting the use of AI for biotechs: part one

Drug Target Review

The latter group (ie, most of us) are waiting for wet lab validation, market demonstration (FDA approvals), and a few other things (which we often cannot define). Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling high-tech Products to Mainstream Customers. Drug Discovery & Development. 20 biotech startups attracted almost $3B in Q1 2024.