Happy Friday
Thank You for Attending Somatek’s Open House and Happy Hour!
Somatek's networking happy hour last month was a major success! Thank you so much to everyone who was able to make it. We're looking forward to seeing you all again at future events.
Monoclonals for Severe Asthma
Severe asthma affects between nine and 15 million people worldwide, causing chest tightness and difficulty breathing in addition to frequent asthma attacks that sometimes require hospitalization. It is usually treated with inhaled corticosteroids such as fluticasone...
Happy Holidays
Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams in a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. If you'd like to check out other recent images from JWST, or a higher resolution...
Tastes Like Chicken
A new milestone for large scale bioprocessing is FDA’s approval of lab-grown chicken for human consumption earlier this week. Read what the AP has to say. Would we like to try UPSIDE Foods’s product at Bar Crenn, a Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco? Indeed,...
Avian flu vaccine for emergency use in California condors
As reported in the journal Nature Federal officials have granted emergency approval to a bird flu vaccine for use in the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus). The move comes after more than a dozen of the birds, which are critically endangered, recently died...
Team Somatek at the San Diego Zoo
Bacteriophage to treat infection caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria
Described as "fascinating and terrifying" by Scientific American, Steffanie Strathdee’s book “The Perfect Predator: A Scientists Race to Save Her Husband From a Deadly Super Bug” Hachette 2019, is the story of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's...
Monoclonals for dogs
If your dog needs itch relief, your vet may now offer a drug called Cytopoint. Cytopoint, produced by Zoetis Inc. and available in the US since early 2018, is an engineered (caninized) monoclonal antibody directed against interleukin-31. Interleukin-31 has been shown...
Chromatographical Joke
Knock knock – Who’s there? – Nuvia – Nuvia who? – No. Nuvia Q – Check out Bio-Rad’s Nuvia line of bioprocess chromatography resins.
Coffee is good for you
Excerpt from an article on Healthline.com: Why Is Coffee Good for You? Here Are 7 Reasons Coffee isn't just warm and energizing, it may also be extremely good for you. In recent years and decades, scientists have studied the effects of coffee on various aspects of...