More Videos
|
CNBC'S MOST SHARED
- Investing in Tech Now
- What You'll See On My NASCAR Documentary Tonight
- Warren Buffett Tells CNBC Consumer Sales Remain "Very, Very Soft"
- Software Giants Rush to Cash In on Carbon Counting
- Warren Buffett's Complete Sun Valley CNBC Interview - Transcript and Video
- Preparing for Retirement
- Microsoft Plays a Game of Bing Pong
- July 10th in Market History
- Video Game Makers Finding Gold in Old Titles
- Call Of Shame - Vote Now
- Schmidt on Social Media, Ads and Hulu
- 15 Stocks to Consider
- Maximum Bob Goes Full Throttle For GM
- Najarian: Options Get Bullish on Cisco
- Sun Valley on Social Media
- Four Hardware Stocks Upgraded by Goldman
- Eric Schmidt + Larry Page on Revolutionizing Computing
- Warren Buffett's Complete Sun Valley CNBC Interview - Transcript and Video
- GM CEO: New Company Will Make Money, Repay Loans
- GM CFO Young: No Positive Cash Flow Until 2009
- Consumers' Mood Sours in Early July
- World Has Avoided Economic Disaster, Obama Says
- Claims Total Over 15,400 in Fraud by Madoff
- UBS Can't Comply with US Request: Internal Memo
- Cisco Cutting up to 2,000 Jobs, Analyst Says
- Treasury Sold Warrants Below Market Value: Panel
- Christmas in July: Consumers to Out-Scrooge Scrooge
RSS FEED
Text Size 
 |
Chinese Hamsters |
] and Pozen [POZN
Loading...
()
] . Thanks to blog-reader Brian Orelli with www.babybiotechs.com who caught the error and pointed it out in an email: "Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells are grown in tissue culture and the mega dose of the drug was given to the CHO cells growing in media in a tissue culture dish/flask in an incubator.
"No animals were harmed during the experiment. Although a hamster years ago did sacrifice its life to donate the cells now grown in culture in labs all over the world."
A Pozen spokesperson confirms that no Chinese Hamsters were injected with Trexima or killed in the study. They used the reproduced ovarian cells in Petri dishes.
 |
I tried to get video of real, live Chinese Hamsters to air on CNBC instead of just the still photos we Googled and had a hard-working intern this morning call at least a dozen pet shops in the northern New Jersey and New York City area.
All of them only carried Russian Dwarf hamsters (who knew there were different types?) except for one New Jersey PetSmart [PETM
Loading...
()
] which had just one left in stock. The manager said it'd be cool if we sent a cameraman to shoot (take pictures) of the little guy, but that we'd have to clear it with corporate first. Well, guess what? You won't be seeing any video of Chinese Hamsters on CNBC.
Questions? Comments?
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes