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Sep 18th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Financial News
The sequencing of the human genome has resulted in the emergence of an enormously important new branch in the biotechnological sciences. The most common terms for this field are bioinformatics or computational biology.
Tags: investing in agriculture, investing in biotech, Patrick Cox
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Aug 18th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Stock Market Investing
Currently, medicine is, to a large degree, a “one size fits all” proposition. Doctors watch for adverse effects and check personal and family histories. Medical technologies, however, are designed for the general population, not individuals. That’s going to change.
Tags: DNA, investing in biotech, Patrick Cox, Pharmaceutical companies, Roche
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Aug 12th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
I’ve been surprised over the past few weeks by the pace of biofuel development. These aren’t breakthroughs that are likely to produce obvious winners in the next few months, but the time line keeps pulling in. There’s a lot of skepticism about this technology, but there was also skepticism for every major tech development of the last three or four decades.
Tags: energy, Investing in Biofuels, Patrick Cox, Synthetic Genomics Inc., XOM
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Aug 7th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Stock Market Investing
At the Agora Financial conference in Vancouver, I participated in a panel that attempted to name “the trade of the decade.” Many of the recommendations involved commodity or resource plays.
Tags: Commodity, inflation, investing in biotech, medical care, Patrick Cox, US market
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Jun 1st, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Stock Market Investing
The electronics and computing industries are getting primed for a massive transformation in the years ahead. Quantum technologies that were only theories in scientific journals just a few years ago are being prototyped in labs now. These new components will change the way we live forever. They will also create transformational profit opportunities.
Tags: energy, HP, INTC, investing in tech, Patrick Cox, STX, Toshiba
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May 13th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Stock Market Investing
There’s something about having servants – even if they seem to love their jobs – that is vaguely disturbing. It offends many Americans’ sense of egalitarianism. But robots are different. They aren’t human. And that’s a big part of their potential appeal. They don’t eat, they don’t get offended and they don’t ask for pay raises. So if a robot could do what a human servant could do, wouldn’t you want a robot?
Tags: Automakers, diversified portfolio, Diversified Portfolios, Mainframes, Patrick Cox, Recessions, Robotics, Servants, tech stocks
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May 5th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Stock Market Investing
A more recent addition to my transformational technologies portfolio, Medarex (NASDAQ:MEDX), has scored a huge win. The company, along with Massachusetts Biologic Laboratory, will get $60 million upfront from Merck (NYSE:MRK) for license rights to a monoclonal antibody that apparently cures C. difficile infection. They are eligible for another $165 million in milestones as well as royalties.
Tags: AVII, BCRX, CBMX, CRXL, DCGN, DVAX, HEB, MEDX, MRK, NVAX, Patrick Cox, Swine Flu Epidemic, VICL
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Apr 17th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Financial News
There’s been so much stem cell news recently, I haven’t written a lot about the other major breakthrough area in medicine. That is, of course, RNA interference (RNAi). So I’d like to rectify that oversight.
Tags: Patrick Cox, Pharma Companies, Rnai Companies, stem cell research
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Jan 30th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Contrary to the common misconception, we have no energy shortage. In fact, we have more energy available than we could ever use.
Tags: alternative energy investing, Energy Policies, Nuclear Weapons Power, Obama, Patrick Cox, Petr Beckmann, thorium
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Jan 29th, 2009 |
By Patrick Cox |
Category: Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
There is a much better way to generate nuclear energy, says Patrick Cox. Thorium is more efficient, more abundant and less hazardous than uranium. Patrick says it is government subsidies and regulations are blocking the widespread use of thorium. But if Obama removes these barriers, it could become the ultimate alternative energy.
Tags: Clean Energy, Nuclear Energy, Patrick Cox, President Obama, Renewable Energy, thorium, Uranium
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