Business and Enterpreneur

It is just amazing how supply follows the need and if the need is urine then businessmen will supply urine – even if it is fake urine – called synthetic urine.The need for urine is for drug tests. When a person undergoes a drug test, they typically need to supply their urine and this urine…

We are based in Massachusetts and have believed that the Biotech industry has been booming in this state. A recently released report by MassBio seconds the view. There are some interesting perspectives from the report. The full report can be downloaded from the MassBio website here: In Biotech R&D, MA is number second behind California…

When you design for a specific action or purpose, a significant plan and thought goes into coming up with a piece of software or instrument or device. This works well for most products. But sometimes for prototypes, or to prove a concept, some really creative people can adapt a concept that did not exist before…

Patents are important to give companies exclusivity in the business of biotechnology. In the patent court a “natural product” is not considered patentable since it is the act of nature and not necessarily an invention. However, one Japanese man – Jokichi Takamine, the first pioneer in Biotechnology nearly 120 years ago, patented a natural product…

RockHealth puts out a report that lists companies that received funding and there are several interesting points in that report for 2017. In their list of megadeals – those companies that received more than $100M in funding, it is interesting that the companies are distributed throughout and not just the two coasts. One of the…

A physician in Indonesia, Gamal Albinsaid, has created a novel system for getting medical treatment. He offers medical treatment in exchange for garbage that his patients pickup. The garbage can be sold and patients get access to cheaper medical care. This effort by Indonesia Medika is commendable because it aims to provide some health coverage…