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Biotech / Medical : VD's Model Portfolio & Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vector1 who wrote (4114)	2/18/1998 5:21:00 AM
From: Rocketman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

Good to hear you're doing the family thing. You going to NJ, bringing NJ to you, or staying with the LA crew? I'm glad you make the typos, damn well cracked me up big time. I love a straight man who sets me up for the big cracks. Just watch out you don't get hosed by the pepeline when the diaper gets opened and the cold air hits it....how is the little guy anyway? If I can only get mine to hit the can consistently life would be good. The kid has serious aiming problems, kinda reminds me of a garden hose turned on full with no one holding the end of it ......whoa....standback and grab a towel. He's going to be 4 next month, hope his aim and timing continue to improve. At least I no longer get blamed for piss on the seat. Pulled him from the HeadsUp! preschool which is "structured", where the rules come before the welfare of the kids and where one of the teachers must be a dominatrix on the side, the German (Dutch?) taskmistress, and put him into a wild and crazy one where the kids rule and he loves it. I'm out a months tuition though, HeadsUP doesn't make exceptions to the contract and I didn't give 30 days notice, but the kid and us couldn't take it anymore, they were ruining his attitude toward school. I'm thinking I should go to school with him at HeadsUp for a day or two and disrupt the hell out of the routine so that they'll pay me my $760 and let me out of the contract so we won't come back. All it would take is me and him being wild and crazy through nap time to put them over the edge I figure, but the wife is against it. Sounds like fun to drive the dominatrix insane....and I'm just the guy to do it. Oh well, not worth getting worked up over it though. Should we put in a limit sell on MOGN maybe....your call. I agree that LGND looks hot and to be homerun material. You seem to be in email hell regularly. I've been good about keeping the inbox empty these days. Spent half the day figuring out why a couple of kid programs weren't working right. One needed me to update drivers, and the other won't work if we've changed desktops without rebooting (which really sucks). Gee, I only spent about an hour and a half on the phone with Microsoft at daytime rates, that should equate to more on the phone call than the damn software cost to begin with, but at least that one works right now. Damn computers sure are a pain in the ass to keep working right. Network computings time has come for business just to keep the individual machine maint costs down, but for us individuals, the damn networks are still too slow to support us. Sure which I could get a cable modem here. Anyway, I need to crash......better me than the computer. Rman

To: Vector1 who wrote (4114)	2/18/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: lwd	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9719

V1: A very tardy thank you for the AFFX info you gave me last month. Our computer was sick for three weeks right after that, something about a mother board and a Microsoft upgrade sabotaging some other software, then the entire family was sick for the next three weeks. So excuses, excuses but I am sorry to reply so slowly. I am seriously considering buying some Sepracor. Do you like it at the current prices? "pepeline" With two boys ages 4 and 6, that has been a major topic of conversation around our house for the last five years. While we are on the subject of urine, there is an article in the January 1998 issue of Nature Biotechnology, p.21, entitled "Urine as a Substitute for Milk?" written by Harry Meade and Carol Ziomek of Genzyme Transgenics. The article debates the merits of milk, blood, and urine as fluids of choice for transgenic protein production. It is written in response to a research article in the same issue, p.75, by Robert J. Wall and colleagues entitled "The Bladder as Bioreactor: Urothelium Production and Secretion of Growth Hormone into Urine" and advocating mouse urine as medium for transgenic protein production. For the layman, Scientific American has a more readable synopsis of Wall's research entitled "Urine the Money", March 1998, p.21. The SA article is a must read for all you VD Portfolio punsters; Vector1, Rocketman, Andrew H, PseudoBiologist, Squetch, Cytoman, JF, Greyfish, consider it a Valentine's present, enjoy, and let the wild rumpus begin. Let me know if any of you want a copy.

To: Vector1 who wrote (4114)	2/18/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Rocketman	Respond to of 9719

Prudential is jumping on the Biogen downgrade wagon and put them from a Buy to a Hold. Copycats! You can bet it wasn't an original thought. Rman