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

To: Cytokine1 who wrote (6313)	1/16/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

Cyto: Thanks for the lists. Hadn't heard of the Rydex biotech before - looks like it's a cap-weighted index fund, which means it has probably done better than any of the other funds lately. The general market cap-weighted funds have been the way to play the market the last few years - be sickening if this also turns out to be the case in biotech going forward. The StockSmart site gives a quite different holding for the Franklin top ten - doesn't give a date, so can't tell which is more recent - be interesting to know which is the more recent. Here are the top 10 according to this site: Pathogenesis 7.9% Inhale 6 Neurex 4.8 Medicis 4.4 Chiron 4.4 Agouron 4. Aviron 4. Idec 3.7 Synaptic 3.6 Transgene 3.2 Neither of these two sets are a bad-looking selection, despite von Empster's past record. ZONA of course is an interesting play that I've always kept well away from. I've always had more confidence in SGP's DD than in Asensio's <G>, so if forced to choose sides I guess I too would play this from the long side. A lot of Asensio's shorts have been strong lately - I wonder if he's been squeezed someplace and forced to cover across the board. Peter

To: Cytokine1 who wrote (6313)	1/16/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: Merritt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

Cyto, thanks for the posts. Chiroscience is a British bt currently being acquired by ZEN, I believe. They recently received FDA approval for their Chirocaine, a long-lasting local anesthetic.

To: Cytokine1 who wrote (6313)	1/17/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: Robert K.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9719

And to rest my case on the one molecule thing just read this one page from just one of their 50 plus bpi patents. Does this prove it will work. No it does not, but it does provide a hint to its potential. BTW also read the page prior to this link.(excellent primer) Also, sorry to burst onto your thread, but I wanted to clarify something. the link>http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/fcgi-bin/any2html?FILENAME=%2Fcache%2F14%2F42%2F5854214.tif&PAGE=36&USER_HTML=%253CA%2BHREF%253D%2Forder%253Fpn%3Dus05854214__%253EOrderPatent%253C%2FA%253E&SCALE=0.35