The picture above is of Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This book had a profound impact on me. He articulates the thought that a high level of engagement is necessary for excellence, and that this is also the key… Read More »Aptamer commercialization IV
The painting above is an early Van Gogh from Paris. You can see the basis for the talent that was to follow but it is also easy to see why this painting did not sell. Commercializing a new product is implicitly a conflict between adding… Read More »Commercializing Aptamers III
One of my parents favourite movies was “Kind Hearts and Coronets” which describes the personal history of a nobleman who was I think 11th in line to a title. All of the characters shown in the poster were actually played by Alec Guinness. He successfully… Read More »Aptamer Commercialization II
Skoll is the name of the wolf, Who follows the shining priest, Into the desolate forest, And the other is Hati, Hróðvitnir’s son, Who chases the bright bride of the sky Snorri Sturluson’s Grímnismál I chose Norse mythology as a description of the cause of solar… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry Series IV: Fluorescence and Aptamers
Don Quixote spent four days coming up with a name for his horse, Rocinante, as the name had to befit a horse of such a great knight. The name Rocinante represents clever word play in Spanish, as “ante” means before, and “rocin” means a nag… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry Series III
At NeoVentures we are global leaders in the development and application of chemistries that enable aptamer performance in diagnostic devices. Usually I start my blogs with a cultural analogy, sorry to disappoint with the adapter image this time. The reason for the analogy is to… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry Series II : The Adapter
Bernard Trevisan ,an unfortunately fictional character, is attributed with spending his life in the scientific pursuit of the Philospher’s Stone, a substance that could transform a base metal into gold. Although Bernard was not ultimately successful, he represents all of those alchemists who built the… Read More »Aptamer Chemistry : The Philosopher’s Stone
Robert Frost’s poem, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, … I took the one less traveled by,. And that has made all the difference …” may be useful advice for life, but not when preparing a path for new products that will be subject to regulatory approval. Developing new… Read More »Modified Nucleotides: Follow the Vaccines
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” ― Jorge Luis Borges, quote from The Library of Babel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel) A library of aptamers is like a library of books. They both contain strings of information… Read More »FRELEX III: Aptamarkers
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