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LaserJet, i have seen you post before---seems you've been around at least as long as me----16 months for me. great to see the "long and strong." i will not forget your post for a long time. i have to go pretty soon but will be back in a couple of hours. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
WWB Securities rates GERN "strong BUY" 25 second(s) ago Article Last Updated: 8/01/2006 07:00 AM
Research costs squeeze Geron
, Bloomberg News
Inside Bay Area
Geron Corp., the developer of cancer treatments based on an enzyme that may inhibit cell growth, said its second-quarter loss tripled as revenue tumbled and research-related costs rose.
The net loss widened to $9.3 million, or 14 cents a share, from $3.1 million, or 6 cents, a year earlier, Menlo Park-based Geron said Monday. Revenue fell to $786,000 from $4.7 million in the year-earlier quarter, when the company received a payment for the rights to a cloning technique.
Expenses rose on higher spending for compensation and for making an experimental cancer vaccine based on the enzyme telomerase, Geron said. The enzyme research is in later development stages than the company's work commercializing treatments using human embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to develop into any type of cell in the human body.
"This company's revenues are based on products that everyone acknowledges are in the offing," said Steve Brozak, an analyst with WBB Securities Inc. in New Jersey. Brozak rates the stock a "strong buy" and doesn't own it. The loss is "not anything of consequence," he said.
Shares of Geron rose 7 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $6.39 in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading.
Geron said it had higher manufacturing costs during the quarter for its telomerase-based vaccine, GRNVAC1, which is in human testing.
The company also began trials at the University of Chicago during the quarter on a telomerase-based drug, GRN163L, to test its safety in patients with tumors.
Geron is conducting other early-stage trials using telomerase to treat leukemia as well as prostate, blood and kidney cancers.
Revenue for the quarter primarily came from TA Therapeutics Ltd., a joint venture with the Biotechnology Research Corp. of Hong Kong to develop antivirals based on the telomerase enzyme, the company said.
In the 2005 quarter, Geron received a $4 million payment for transferring the rights for a cloning technique to a new joint venture, Start Licensing Inc.
In its stem-cell research, Geron has said it plans to apply for approval from the Food and Drug Administration to begin tests next year on injecting stem cells into people with spinal cord injuries to repair nerve damage.
Sentiment : Strong Buy
Paula, esammee, prime, chris, jimcw, rx7171, weathermanbc, Aureas2 et al forget yahoo for good-------i'm only posting over there for one reason from now on------to let people know we are here or silicon--------------------that is IT. look at it this way-------until news comes out we might as well post over here, because zero good is happening over there. we'll get the word out. Leo, texmac2323 where are you guys????? when good news comes out we can visit over there. it will be fun.
who wants to talk geron, i'm here.
you and jim make great points regarding dr. okarma/CC. thanks for the comment about siliconinvestor.com.
hey, Paula: i'm having difficulties setting up my free acct over at siliconinvestor.com. i get "server error in '/' application." it also says "runtime error." i tried three different times with three different names all with the same result. i'd like to have my normal id, but i'll take anything. can you connect me with someone who can help if you cant easily rectify the situation. i'm looking very much forward to the newest site.
sure Paula, let's go to siliconinvestor.com.
hey esammee, interesting post. i have to believe longs and the truth have a much better chance here at investorshub.com-----that is where i am isnt it? lol.
There are many stock specific boards here that have what is fondly referred to as "stuckholders" and some of these people will post anything just to entice new people into the stock to possibly also become "stuckholders".
An example is the CMKX board. This stock has been revoked but in it's heydey there were many posters claiming that it would go TO DA MOON. One particular poster racked up 100's of membermarks in a very short while because he allegedly was a lawyer and people just believed every word he said.
Why would you want other people to decide for you which posts should be endorsed?
I like to see both the good and the bad about any company that I may invest in or that I am already invested in.
JMO
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Susie924: this has to be my last post as i want to save the rest of my posts for my board, but let me say this: your reference to "stuckholders" to me implies "longs." if i may, you also imply that shorts are doing better than longs, generally speaking, and you may be very much correct------these shorts are in no small part being helped by the short friendly format newly put to use by yahoo----let alone no moderator over there------all kinds of junk gets posted at yahoo. it would not surprise me if hedge funds and yahoo are good buds right about now since many investors as part of their dd look at the chatter on yahoo stock message boards. the paid bashers have the time to create id's and post under all of them creating the illusion that huge numbers of people dont like the long position in a stock. add the false recs that multiple short id's of both shorts and longs. no multiple id's here-------therefore recs, not the new star system at yahoo, would enable a true reflection of board sentiment toward a certain post saving people time while they judge the value of a certain poster/post. you say, "why would you want other people to decide for you which posts should be endorsed?" i want other opinions, without the trash of yahoo. kinda like voting in an election-----therefore, why not vote for posts/posters? you say: " i like to see both the good and the bad about any company that i may invest in or that i am already invested in." and how does anything i've suggested promote otherwise? you can read any post you want. now add the moderator you folks have over here and investorshub.com is a great success that may do better with a recommendation button. isnt the rec button an incredibly massive time saver as people dont have to post every single time just to let everyone know how they feel about a certain post/poster???????????????? do you work for the hedge funds?
There are many stock specific boards here that have what is fondly referred to as "stuckholders" and some of these people will post anything just to entice new people into the stock to possibly also become "stuckholders".
An example is the CMKX board. This stock has been revoked but in it's heydey there were many posters claiming that it would go TO DA MOON. One particular poster racked up 100's of membermarks in a very short while because he allegedly was a lawyer and people just believed every word he said.
Why would you want other people to decide for you which posts should be endorsed?
I like to see both the good and the bad about any company that I may invest in or that I am already invested in.
JMO
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Susie924: this has to be my last post as i want to save the rest of my posts for my board, but let me say this: your reference to "stuckholders" to me implies "longs." if i may, you also imply that shorts are doing better than longs, generally speaking, and you may be very much correct------these shorts are in no small part being helped by the short friendly format newly put to use by yahoo----let alone no moderator over there------all kinds of junk gets posted at yahoo. it would not surprise me if hedge funds and yahoo are good buds right about now since many investors as part of their dd look at the chatter on yahoo stock message boards. the paid bashers have the time to create id's and post under all of them creating the illusion that huge numbers of people dont like the long position in a stock. add the false recs that multiple short id's of both shorts and longs. no multiple id's here-------therefore recs, not the new star system at yahoo, would enable a true reflection of board sentiment toward a certain post saving people time while they judge the value of a certain poster/post. you say, "why would you want other people to decide for you which posts should be endorsed?" i want other opinions, without the trash of yahoo. kinda like voting in an election-----therefore, why not vote for posts/posters? you say: " i like to see both the good and the bad about any company that i may invest in or that i am already invested in." and how does anything i've suggested promote otherwise? you can read any post you want. now add the moderator you folks have over here and investorshub.com is a great success that may do better with a recommendation button. isnt the rec button an incredibly massive time saver as people dont have to post every single time just to let everyone know how they feel about a certain post/poster???????????????? do you work for the hedge funds?
i dont think i agree with you Susie924. sure one rec does not necessarily mean anything, but wouldnt twenty mean something while being a time saver sorting thru the posts. i'm not sure about this, but i'm guessing multiple id's are not allowed here, therefore recs would be a true indicator of approval. i much appreciate your time, please let me know where i'm wrong so i dont go around spewing.
i added my two cents regarding the recs. thanks for the link Paula.
Good to have the moderated boards at investorshub.com , I am a refugee from the yahoo boards, driven out by the idiotic format and the lack of a real moderator. One thing that made it easy for me to catch up on good posts, was the feature that the old yahoo boards had, where you could endorse a post, each endorsement or 'rec' would tag up the tally for that post , visible to the right of the subject line. Is this something that can be added to this board?
Thanks
Prime3end
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nice call on the yahoo board paula. his multiple id's will be too busy doing stars to post???
that's right. 15 tomorrow.
you're right, i like money far more than i like you. you know why???? people like you, who make false statements about a company trying to help people, cant get any lower. money can help people, try it.
.....i said that just because bushie vetoed it didn't mean people would die it just meant they would get help overseas.............these are realistic ideas as to the situation at hand.
.....GERN may or may not be at the forefront of HESC tech i can't say..................bush made it harder for sure but you will still see new treatments and protocols developed in singapore and asia in general because they are willing to fund these iniatives to accomplish more then guarenteed returns on their money.
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the above are statements by hasbro123, posted this morning. i wonder what people suffering from the many diseases hesc's may treat think about the first paragraph------but in the second paragraph hasbro admits "bush has made it harder for sure." does hasbro really know what he means? ignorance is one thing, being short geron is something else-------neither one is any good if you want this technology to succeed and hasbro123 is your source of information-----you decide. i'm done talking with this guy. esammee, thanks for your accurate posts regarding not only hasbro's above paragraphs, but all other subject matter.
Nobody gets turned down in an emergency room.............so where is the problem?????
The problem is in the emergency room they will stabilize you.........after that if you can't afford the treatment,procedure or lack insurance you don't get it................do you understand that yet???
Now there is an option...............same procedure............same quality...........far more affordable.
This is not rocket science.................you could do the math on an abacus.
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hasbro, the only way a poor person will get hesc therapies is to go overseas as bush will not give monetary support to hesc's here-------there's only one problem, where does the poor guy get the $10,000 for the air fare and therapy. if hesc research were to be expedited by expanded fed funding then those poor folks would have a chance, right here within walking distance. you see hasbro, the rich and middle class will have choices, we dont need to worry about them, what about the have nots??????????????????????? in my last post tonight, i am elated that i could expose the true you.
i have two more posts so i guess i should make them count. you are right, esammee-----everyday poor people receiving inferior care die where other folks with more money live----- this problem will only get worse with no fed funding as we watch the world pass us by technologically--------and certainly we cannot expect foreign countries to care more about our destitute than we do----we should lead by example----be the leader in this wonderful new medical field. are we going to outsource the medical treatment of our citizens-----this cannot be a good idea for the medical or economic health of our country. the answer to the high cost of medical care may greatly lie with hesc therapies.
Yes....the poor guy with no money will die.........happens everyday.
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nobody gets turned down in an emergency room--------just make stuff up why dont you. america is the poor guy's best hope( he's having a tough enough time with his next meal let alone overseas plane fare) and yet our medicine is going down the tubes on this most important hesc area because of bush. what about the fact that hesc's will drastically reduce the cost of health care???????????????????????????? answer that question and the other three from my prior post. can ya do it???????????????? can you?????????????????? i've been trying for a while............why dont you answer those questions??????????????????????? really.
you avoid my questions, i asked what about the broke guy (no money)------ insurance companies will not send him overseas-------so does he die because the procedures he needs are only available overseas and not here because there was no fed funding of research? what about the reality that the cheap prices will not last long????? then we are at the mercy of foreign nations for the medical treatment of our citizens????? answer these questions.
that's right Paula, i'm not talking about the ones choosing to go overseas----that's there choice. as you point out many/most dont have that choice. i state facts and all of a sudden i have an agenda------but he says i'm stupid, nothing personal.
hey hasbro, what about my japanese car example-----what do we do when the prices rise overseas and we are at their mercy because of no fed funding here? what about that poor guy with no money, does he just die cause he doesnt have the money to pay for the "cheap" overseas care? just keep outsourcing, just keep outsourcing.
nemo
nbc tonight: poll regarding november----48% want democrats to control congress.
38% want republicans to control congress.
four or five minute segment interviewing disappointed republicans. analyst said problems for republicans come november. the piece said the republicans will have a difficult time maintaining control. paints a nice picture for november. go geron.
you are not understanding me, here: if someone is walking around with no money and no insurance is it cheaper to send him overseas or send him down the street? on top of the obvious answer, outsourcing undermines the usa. let's get rid of the problem spending in corp/govt and use that saved money and spend it on improving policies over here. why spend the money over there------there's no future for our economy with that policy. no govt or insurance company is going to pay for some poor soul to go overseas and get treatment-------it's for sure dude. efficient spending-----how's that for a thought.
you call me stupid?------oh yeah i'm quite sure we are going to pay to have the uninsured/underinsured shipped overseas to get treated. who will authorize that???????? tell me???????we've been talking about tons of stuff and you show your colors clearly.
Some uninsured and those with skimpy insurance have taken the risk.......
Don't look for major health insurers to offer such a plan nationally yet.....
......few employers have signed on to the idea of medical tourism yet........ So far, the company doesn't have competition from major health insurers, says managing director Patrick Marsek. "They're not quite keen on sending clients overseas yet," possibly because such programs could upset the U.S. hospitals the insurers currently use, Marsek says.(yeah, like the uninsured will just buzz on over there with their spare change. i guess we just wait for them to offer this great plan, we're already waiting for other stuff-----the govt/corps figure we're good at this waiting deal.
Some employers may be cautious (no, really?)
Not everyone is convinced that employers will embrace medical care abroad for their workers. Regulatory hurdles, not to mention questions about safety and liability, may scare off employers. (imagine that, you mean that's why we have hospitals already here in the usa?)
"Employers will be very cautious about this," says Mike Taylor, a principal at benefits firm Towers Perrin. "Smaller employers will try it. The big employers will wait." (more to lose-----oh but they could take that money they could lose and just spend it here on patients and vote for issues affecting the masses--------there goes the good ole boys club.)
While about 100 hospitals abroad are currently accredited by an affiliate of the same company that checks American hospitals, not all of the hospitals used by tour companies are. And even accreditation doesn't mean that things can't go wrong. Training for doctors in other countries may be quite different from training in the USA.......(hope you get a good surgeon)
While prices are lower abroad, Milstein cautions that consumers should not think that quality is superior to American care.(hope you get a good surgeon)
Promoters of medical tourism contend that the option to go abroad may help cure one of the most difficult problems in America: how to provide quality medical care at an affordable price.(i've got a good idea, let's spend less in iraq and more on health care here.)
After the monsoon season ends in India, Blue Ridge will send a team to check out hospitals to see if employees could have surgeries done there.
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japanese cars were once less money. same will happen to the care overseas, it will get more and more expensive. so while we go overseas to get care for what bush should have approved, our scientific community falls further and further and further behind-----what a great plan. what about the uninsured, what is the plan for those poor people? what happens to our economy, i guess we will just outsource everything???? yeah, this is all about saving the almighty corporation money, aint it. why dont the ceo's and higher ups take less pay and take care of their employees. dont get sick during the monsoon season.
you're the one lost. a friend of my folks just had heart surgery, it was completely coverage by insurance-----get your mess together. oh by the way, his insurance does not cover going overseas. now we've covered the one point, what about the rest of the points i made good buddy????????
you're a comedian.
You have a better grasp of things then i do and i'm going with your call.
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you make it sound like it's some kind of subjective interpretation you are going with here. naw that's not it, you are going with the objective facts. if you are long geron and challenged in the sciences, i wonder why you would make statements, that are wrong, that go against geron. combine the above with the fact you think it ok for us citizens, regardless of income/insurance level to travel overseas for hesc treatments. just consider all the time and expense getting visas/passports/time away from work/actual travel time/dangerous destinations/extra cost------dont tell me it's cheaper when looking at the above list and breakfast, lunch and dinner out hotel rooms, taxi rides--------the damn list gets way longer. i get a ......a......um.......messed up feeling when considering your umm.........stuff. if you get sick, you want to wait for a passport and not have the support of loved ones that cant leave the usa? if overseas care is such a great idea, then why has the usa ever developed one damn therapy over here? why do foreign countries develop therapies------it's good for their citizens and their economy------------same for here dude.
You have a better grasp of things then i do and i'm going with your call.
November isn't far off and the feild should become level after the veto is dealt with...........i'm looking forward to that.
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when i look at all your posts, i really wonder....... no, let me phrase it this way............i have no doubts.
congratulations Paula, moms posts are far, far less disruptive than before-----a lid has been put on that turkey as it/she/he is very much more careful about what it says. you went in and got a job done. thank you very much for that and starting a new, totally clean, board.
no kidding. the lid may be finally/rightfully coming off. i feel great for the folks who have stood up for this stock for years, unwaveringly. they are a great part of why i'm long.
hey this edit button deal is very nice-----spelling messes and all. one less reason to use yahoo board: the "full message board" is no longer coming up in the old format. have to dig now to see who posted what-----that, by itself, makes it worth coming over here on a permanent basis. i guess you dig with the old format, but you can see who's been booted because the WHOLE name is there------the times are not messed up on the old format, they seem to be out of order in the new format. the over all flow is much better with the old format, and that old format is what ya got here. i'm sure there is other stuff favoring the old format/investorshub.com which i'm forgetting regarding "user friendly" stuff-----it's a slam dunk when you consider the jerks/shorts/bashers over at yahoo.
yep, seems like diabetes based on the help wanted. either way it would have been good, but just think of the millions of people who may/will be helped with new/better diabetes therapies and possibly/probably a cure. i just love slashes. i just cant think of a stock more liable to set the world/shorts on fire than geron. ooops, nothing inflammatory meant.
Interesting New Job Postings At GERN (2 Ratings) 26-Jul-06 09:20 am Including:
1. Senior Research Assoc for DIABETES
2. Director For CLINICAL OPERATIONS
3. Quality Assurance DIRECTOR
4. Quality Control DIRECTOR
5. Quality Control DIRECTOR (Regenerative Medicines)
6. Quality Assurance MANAGER
and last but not least,
7. Senior REGULATORY AFFAIRS SPECIALIST
To me, this all points to way more than just product research & development. It says GERN is getting ready for actual production and dealing with the Feds on compliance & regulations.
http://www.geron.com/showpage.asp?code=c...
Sentiment : Strong Buy
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the link wont work, you have to type it in. i think weathermannbc, like always, has this right-------this is very significant stuff. oh, pulled this off yahoo board.
hey Aureas2, your posts are always great. up two days in a row, that must be some kind of record. lol. i'd like to see more folks post over here. i think longs are able to handle shorts, in one kind of game, on the yahoo board. longs could play a different game here and win too----that wouldnt hurt. what's "boil a frog?"
i absolutely dont think you were hypocritical. two somewhat different games are being played. one at yahoo and the other here. you were rightly keeping this board free of the junk that permeates yahoo. moms deserves anything "it" gets.
Schwarzenegger gives $150M stem Loan 7 minutes ago Schwarzenegger gives $150M stem cell loan SACRAMENTO - A day after
President Bush vetoed expanded federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday authorized a $150 million loan to fund California's stem cell institute, which has been stalled by lawsuits Schwarzenegger, a Republican who has been trying to put distance between himself and the unpopular president as he seeks re-election this year, said the state cannot afford to wait to fund the critical science associated with stem cells. "I remain committed to advancing stem cell research in California, in the promise it holds for millions of our citizens who suffer from chronic diseases and injuries that could be helped as a result of stem cell research," Schwarzenegger said in a letter to his finance director
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_o...
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AWESOME PRESENTATION BY GERON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!people in the audience must have been in shock as they watched and listened to geron's greatness/history in the making.