Business Notes: Feb. 21, 2016
Lebanon — Adimab LLC, the Lebanon-based biomedical firm that discovers and develops antibody-based pharmaceuticals has reported isolating “a broad panel of neutralizing anti-Ebola virus antibodies” from a survivor of the recent outbreak in Zaire. The discovery, published online in the journal Science, “describes the first in-depth view into the human antibody response to Ebola virus,” Laura Walker, senior scientist at Adimab and an...
Avian Flu Drives Up Egg Prices
Kansas City, Mo. — Three weeks ago, if you ordered a three-egg omelet from Roxanne’s Cafe in the Kansas City suburb of Parkville, you would probably get a five-egg omelet instead. Cooks weren’t too concerned about how many eggs they scooped into the frying pan, and owner Roxanne Gray gladly allowed it. Today, Roxanne’s is more stringent. A three-egg omelet means three eggs. No more, no less. “I have one cook that I can’t control his...
