Biolex
Biolex Therapeutics was a biotechnology firm in the Research Triangle of North Carolina that was founded in 1997 and raised $190 million from investors. It filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on July 5, 2012.
The company focused on expression of difficult-to-synthesize recombinant proteins in its LEX platform, which used Lemna, a duckweed. The duckweeds are a family of small aquatic plants that can be grown in sterile culture. Biolex developed recombinant DNA technology for efficiently producing pharmaceutical proteins in Lemna. Therapeutic glycosylated proteins, including monoclonal antibodies and interferon (IFN-alpha2b) have been produced using the LEX platform.
Biolex acquired Epicyte Pharmaceutical Inc. on May 6, 2004, and acquired LemnaGene SA of Lyon, France in 2005. Biolex was a privately held company, originally backed by Quaker BioVentures, The Trelys Funds, and Polaris Venture Partners. The term "plantibody" is trademarked by Biolex. In May 2012 Biolex announced that it sold the LEX System to Synthon, a Netherlands-based specialty pharmaceutical company. The sale included two preclinical biologics made with the LEX System, BLX-301, a humanized and glyco-optimized anti-CD20 antibody for non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma and other B-cell malignancies and BLX-155, a direct-acting thrombolytic. The financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
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Risin' High
by: H-blocksIt's a loffer poffer ding dong, bigger than king kong's
Without a doupt, that ain't nothing to discuss about
When I see you my friend you take it in your hand
Do you, like it like I always like it too
When you hold it nice and tight I think the time is right
To quick make up your mind if you wanna be with me tonight
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your stick fly high
Ah when you're shaking in your room how to meet this girl real soon
You'd like to think of silly willy how you'd like to do the willy killy
Smooth your chose to let you emos run lose
But the lose girl is gone with her clothes still on
Man it ain't no thing but a chicken wing
Cause when I bust you out will scream and shout
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your stick fly high
Cause I'm living for my loffer, I am living for my poffer
I am living for my ding dong I'm living for my King Kong
Say what girlie hot I wanna bust your spot
You say no no way you gotta stop and say
Hey stud crack my nut with your lickory stick
Rise it high make me fly cause you're magic guy
That's why I'm living for my loffer and I'm living fpr my poffer
I am living for my ding dong I am living for my king kong
Loffer di poffer di loffer di poffer di loffer di poffer di ding dong
It's a loffer poffer ding dong bigger than King Kong's
Without a doubt that ain't nothing to discuss about.
And now you hold it nice and tight and now the time is right
Cause you made up your mind that you'll be with me tonight.
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high
Rising High Rising High let your will fly high