You know your consumer product is scaling when Katie Couric gives it a shout out. It’s even better when the product relates to something Ms. Couric feels very strongly about – colon cancer. Her husband died of colon cancer at the age of 42 in 1998. Several years later, Ms. Couric had a live colonoscopy […]
The meltdown of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is just the latest reminder that it can take time – and billions of dollars lost – to catch fraud, even when there are more red flags waving than in a Russian parade. For starters, any company flying its flag from the Bahamas should at least raise an […]
You know those pop TV shows that ask burning questions like, “Where are they now?” Usually, the episode will pick some child star who flamed out early, spending the better part of their youth burning through rerun royalties with drugs and alcohol. Today, little Johnny Boy is three years sober and doing a podcast interviewing […]
Given today’s investor has such high expectations of growth it seems prudent to wait until after an earnings announcement before purchasing a stock. Likewise, checking in with a company right before earnings allows us to take an inventory of what’s happening prior to all the price action noise that typically takes place around earnings announcements. […]
When you’ve been writing about technology for as long as we have at Nanalyze you start to see patterns emerge. One of the most interesting – and potentially biggest game-changers in the life sciences arena – is the emergence of precision medicine. The approach takes into account individual variability in genes, among other factors, to […]
One can’t help but wonder why the Americans are so worried about peanut allergies when 34 million of them use a product every day that slowly kills them. In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths. While we may not be able to pry someone’s cigarettes from their […]
The so-called “cure for cancer” isn’t one magical treatment that may or may not be secretly hidden from everyone as part of a vast conspiracy by big pharma. Today’s spray-and-pray approach to cancer treatment has varying degrees of success targeting the over 200 types of cancer, each instance of which is unique to the patient. […]
One question we’re often asked at Nanalyze is what emerging technology do we think will be most disruptive in the long term. The short answer: All of them. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be devoting long hours at the laptop between trips to the local dispensary writing about all of this amazing progress. Artificial intelligence, as we’ve […]
Of all the things that your doctor could tell you that might be a cause for alarm, hearing that you have late-stage cancer is probably one of the worst. We’ve all heard people talk about a “cure for cancer” when in fact there is no one single cure. However, things are starting to look up […]
Cancer isn’t something we like talking about, maybe because it is the cause of one of every four deaths in the United States, and nobody likes talking about death. Almost everyone knows someone who has been affected by cancer, and we all like to throw around the term “a cure for cancer”. The fictional “cure for cancer” […]