Another twitter profile of one of the #biotech #stocks that I track, this time it's $TWST TwistBio. The company is a DNA Write company, currently applying their tech to #SynthBio, #NGS and #AntibodyDiscovery Image
The different segments are easy to explain, and in many cases we can draw analogies to $ILMN Illumina in #NGS: they provide products and services to different segments as a 'tools' provider. Now on to Twist Biopharma, here is were things get complicated.
Twist Biopharma is by all intends an purposes just another branch that concentrates on the antibody side of things. Part of what they offer is just more 'products and services', like they would do with NGS or SynthBio. The complicated part is their intention to also engage...
... in partnerships and collaborations, and Out-Licensing Opportunities. Going back to the $ILMN Illumina analogy, here the company is buying @GrailBio (regulators permitting) to then start offering clinical assays, of a similar kind to the ones they supply NGS products, like ...
... $GH Guardant Health or $EXAS Exact Sciences. As already obvious by the different open fronts that Illumina has with regulators, and the money set aside in their books, this causes problems: if they give advantageous pricing to GrailBio and then acquire them, the regulators...
... won't be happy and will ask Illumina to either remain as a tools company or go clinical but without punishing their competitors in the clinical space. Same questions can be directed to $TWST TwistBio in their biopharma intentions.
So there is a thin line to walk between wanting to become a similar company like $ABCL AbCellera while also wanting to supply tools in the #AntibodyDiscovery business to every potential customer that is already in this business vertical.
For more on #biotech #stocks go to bit.ly/biotech-slides .

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The 5-day chart shows a seesawing pattern, with peaks coming from the 1-2 initial hours of market, which quickly deflate either within the day's trade value or the next day. As mentioned before in this twitter account, the shape of these can sometimes be indicative of a large...
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The London stock market is now closed and $ONT.L Oxford @nanopore is presenting technology updates. I'll live tweet my highlights, but won't be thoroughly complete with screenshots (thread)
First talk is James Clark for Platform updates.
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