General Stock Ideas

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Well, after listening to the two recent presentations and canvassing Sangamo's website -

https://www.sangamo.com/

I must admit that the science is way over my head. But my impressions are, from what I gleaned, that the technology is very encouraging and that the people who work for the company know what they are doing. As is the case with early stage bio-companies, something could always go wrong in the clinical trials - the company can't predict with absolute certainty that their mission will be a success. However, the people at Pfizer and Gilead/Kite chose SGMO's ZFN technology over those of other companies who are trying to succeed in the gene-editing space.

Sangamo has a rather hefty pipeline -

https://www.sangamo.com/product-pipeline

that includes non-therapeutic uses -

https://www.sangamo.com/collaborations/non-therapeutic-partnerships

From a layman's point of view, the science does make sense. Other partnerships/collaborations can possibly be agreed upon at any time. Even a buyout can't be ruled out. In conclusion, I think it's a good, speculative stock to invest in with money one can afford to lose if things should go awry, but which might reap rather sizeable gains if things go right.