Inside Moderna Therapeutics, biotech's most secretive startup
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — At first glance, Moderna Therapeutics looks like the most enviable biotech startup in the world. It has smashed fundraising records and teamed up with pharmaceutical giants as it pursues a radical plan to revolutionize medicine by transforming human cells into drug factories.
But the reality is more complicated.
A STAT investigation found that the company’s caustic work environment has for years driven away top talent and that behind its obsession with secrecy, there are signs Moderna has run into roadblocks with its most ambitious projects.
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The company has published no data supporting its vaunted technology, and it’s so secretive that some job candidates have to sign nondisclosure agreements before they come in to interview. Outside venture capitalists said Moderna has so many investors clamoring to get in that it can afford to turn away any who ask too many questions. Some small players have been given only a peek at Moderna’s data before committing millions to the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
“It’s a case of the emperor’s new clothes,” said a former Moderna scientist. “They’re running an investment firm, and then hopefully it also develops a drug that’s successful.”
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Moderna’s technology promised to subvert the whole field, creating therapeutic proteins inside the body instead of in manufacturing plants. The key: harnessing messenger RNA, or mRNA.
In nature, mRNA molecules function like recipe books, directing cellular machinery to make specific proteins. Moderna believes it can play that system to its advantage by using synthetic mRNA to compel cells to produce whichever proteins it chooses. In effect, the mRNA would turn cells into tiny drug factories.
It’s highly risky. Big pharma companies had tried similar work and abandoned it because it’s exceedingly hard to get RNA into cells without triggering nasty side effects. But if Moderna can get it to work, the process could be used to treat scores of diseases, including cancers and rare diseases that can be death sentences for children.
Reminds me of Theranos and it's female Steve Jobs wannabe, Elizabeth Homles, who is under indictment for creating absolutely nothing other than beguiling investors. Ego-driven people make me sick. It's one thing to be a strong leader, it's another to be an a$$hole who is mostly a salesman who can sell ice to Eskimo's. Yet he managed to sell his snake-oil to the politicians in DC, wouldn't surprise me if The Fowch isn't on the board.
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what was going through my mind while reading the story. I was equating Moderna with Theranos.
DeleteRead that as Thanos initially and then once I realized my error wondered if there was really any difference.
DeleteYup. And research is finding out that the Clot Shot is supressing the WBC and other phages, the killer t-cells are focussed on only one specific protein, and as a result your immune system is shot to hell.
ReplyDeleteOh, and let's not forget VAIDS, Myocarditis, thrombosis, etc. Yet, things are pooh-poohed and chalked up as due to "stress".
Yeah, tell it to all the healthy people going tits up suddenly. And all the miscarriages. And all the airline pilots that have dropped dead. And... on and on.
Can you say, "bioweapon"?
Yeah, tell it to all the healthy people going tits up suddenly. And all the miscarriages. And all the airline pilots that have dropped dead.
ReplyDeleteWhaat? ( In the screechingest Karen voice you can imagine) I KNOW those things are not happening.. Because none of the lefties are talking about it.
And, no shit,bring all of that up and they will pretend they have heard nothing about it and demand you find the reports.
"There is none so blind as he who will not see!"
DeleteThey are ignorant, and ignorance can get you killed.
What makes the entire mess even more sordid is the willingness of politicians to relieve these snake oil salesmen of any liability. In a perfect world, we'd see many of these reprobates hanging from gallows.
ReplyDeleteDuring The french civil war, guillotine victims all had legal protection from thier actions.
DeleteIrish!
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DeleteThe absolutely worst and most criminal thing that the government has done with this entire debacle has been to not only allow the approval of a vaccine in record time, without enough long term testing as to the dangers to come, but they had the absolute gall to give a get out of jail free card to all of the makers and givers of the vaccine. And no doubt to all of the investors, a very large number of whom will turn out to be governmental leaders, of both parties.
ReplyDeleteThey think we are dumb, and won't connect the dots. Or if we do, that we don't have the guts to do anything. They might be right. But in my small city of some 80,000 or so , we used to have 3-4 hospitals, and around 5 medicenters. A few years ago, one rather large hospital in town, with help from their parent corporation from Grand Rapids, decided that our little area didn't need so many hospitals. One hospital specialized in heart proceedures, while another one did most cancer treatment, and the outcomes were pretty damn good, for a rather small city.
Now, the spent some 19 million dollars, built the one hospital up to 9 floors, tore down most of the medicenters, the only other hospital left standing is now only used for sleep studies, birth control and ivf, and a few other little things like that. This in a hospital that once housed a full emergency center with trauma bay, 5 floors, surgical bays, an ob/gyn delivery floor, you know, a full hospital, with a full heart cath lab and heart treatment center. Now, most of it will be gone.
Now, the one remaining hospital is flooded to the top, due they are saying to the covid virus patients. The medicenters are full with waiting times in the hours. Hell, my daughter, age 25, has an autoimmune disease that is handled by doctors in Ann Arbor, at the U of M medical center. They wanted her to go down there, and be admitted, due to her blood work, that she gets,every other week. But all of THEIR beds were full. They wanted me to take her and drop her at emergency in Ann Arbor, to sit there and wait for a room to open up, for her to get placed there. I told them no way.
What it would be a damn shame to happen is if everyone who was pissed at the medical community, for what they have allowed the government to do in regards to this crock of crap covid "pandemic", would be for a bunch of people to storm hospitals and cause damage to equipment and things. Because that would never do. How could the hospitals operate, if they didn't have any O2 outlets, due to them being busted, or all of the water coming into the buildings being damaged?
These people do not understand just how pissed off some of the people that I have talked with are, about first cutting down the number of beds for patients in hospitals, here in our city, and now they are all filled, to the point that they are actually telling people to not come to the ER.
Oh, but don't forget, they have passed the 3rd booster shot, and are talking about a 4th one now. I got the Pfizer shots. For reasons. But just like you can always eat a tiny bit of poison and possibly live, I would not keep doing it, just to see how much it takes to kill me. So the only booster I will be getting, will be a stool if the beer is on the top shelf at the store, because I can see that I am going to need to start drinking.
I know, sometimes I don't know enough to stop.
They made the vaccine first and then made Covid so they could use it.
ReplyDeleteLook at the timeline. The Vax was patented in 2016.
Covid appeared in mid 19.