COVID drugs come in 3 flavors; it’s time for more diversity

COVID drugs come in 3 flavors; it’s time for more diversity

Our industry’s response to COVID-19 defied the conventional wisdom that it takes years to deliver new drugs. Makers of monoclonal antibodies led the pack, most notably Regeneron (NSDQ:REGN), which manufactured the 8-g, two-antibody cocktail administered to...
Covid therapies must look beyond the lungs

Covid therapies must look beyond the lungs

By Brian Finrow and Jim Roberts Today, Lumen announced significant new federal funding covering a Phase 2 clinical trial of our Covid-19 product, LMN-301. It is, we believe, the world’s first clinical program directed specifically at the GI manifestations of Covid-19....
Machine learning meets molecular farming

Machine learning meets molecular farming

Today Lumen announced the first results of our long-running collaboration with Google’s world-beating AI/ML (machine learning) team. The gist: advanced algorithms helped us navigate a dizzying amount of data to double the productivity of cGMP biologics manufacturing...