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Another twitter profile of one of the #biotech #stocks that I track, this time it's $TWST TwistBio. The company is a DNA Write company, currently applying their tech to #SynthBio, #NGS and #AntibodyDiscovery 
The different segments are easy to explain, and in many cases we can draw analogies to $ILMN Illumina in #NGS: they provide products and services to different segments as a 'tools' provider. Now on to Twist Biopharma, here is were things get complicated.
Twist Biopharma is by all intends an purposes just another branch that concentrates on the antibody side of things. Part of what they offer is just more 'products and services', like they would do with NGS or SynthBio. The complicated part is their intention to also engage...
In #biotech #stocks today, I highlight $BLI Berkeley Lights which is currently down -11%. The trend is still looking downwards since Dec 2020 when it had a remarkable burst of what I would call "frothiness" and since then it's been on a gentle downwards trajectory.
Sometimes these big short hikes are not entirely rational, and as of late, with the emergence of the meme stock phenomenon, normal decent-looking #biotech companies can be hijacked by pump-and-dumpers that don't even care at all about what they invest in.
This is nowadays magnified by the Robin Hood's of the world of investing, which act as an amplifier of the crowd behaviour that is decoupled from any logical thinking.
