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Biotech / Medical : Gene therapy -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (41)	4/9/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 319

Mainly off topic, lost on the due diligence trail: When you are hiking...maybe scrambling off the trail to go up to a viewpoint...there sometimes comes a realization that, although you know where you want to be, you are, temporarily, but completely...lost. I have that feeling this morning as it sit in my office, listening to my printer pound out a list of companies looking for cancer cures (specifially, gene therapy>oligonucleotides.) I got confused back on another trail, lost my way, and did not recall that OSIP does indeed have an anti-angio inhibitor--could not figure out why the dang thing was running. Should have just sat down and spent an hour looking, but flailed around and got even more lost. So, I was thinking how is it I got to this point, moving over to gene therapy for a moment, but still dazed and confused. I am standing on a rock, we will call it Valentis (mbio)...there are other points down the hill, one was Targeted Genetics, one Cell Genesys etc. So I reach in my pack to get my scratch paper of how to get to the ridgetop. It says get to the top inexpensively--take the cheap trail (Genetic Therapy/ Sandoz/Novartis falls of the list. Take the trail which logically might get to the top--the one the scientists might take (--somehow awhile back I might have been lead to gmed, maybe some comment a bio guru mentioned, maybe my own DD). Then Avigen fell off the list because its patent claims were so broad. Avoid the trails that everybody likes--the ones the analysts might take for instance, the view from there is dangerous, you can find yourself falling, and you all plunge together--Vical drops off. These are the bizzare thoughts that go through my head when I'm not occupied with other hobbies. Hope I'm not creeping anybody out, I'm a very normal guy if you met me...wife seems to think I'm not batty... However, I do think I need to ease up from this stuff, I don't have a Ivy League mind, sort of a B+ type of state college brain. Anyway, I bought myself a copy of Ultima Online, and I'm heading off to Britannia for a month. Also, I have some reading to do--need to re-read all those links that are on the new patent thread. Here is the link for that in case folks don't have it yet. Subject 27298 I'm going to back off to no more than a single post a day, that self imposed restriction will also help to reduce the amount of noise I generate, god knows I'm guilty there!