[Update Feb 16 2010: Performance of ISCO has been, uh, meh (and as volatile as a penny stock - which it is) since the Friday anticipated in this report. Not even following it anymore daily - may look back at it and some of these others. Still strongly interested but not invested in NNVC - yet.]

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When I can freely view the full report, both in html format here.. and in downloadable pdf format here?

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These are the six stocks the report recommends (my title said 5 because the first five are biotech, the last is energy): ISCO, BTIM, GERN, MRNA, and NNVC.  The last is LTBR.

These are “buy and forget” stocks – hold them for a few years.  Forget, because penny stocks can be extremely volatile during a company’s founding years, violently swinging up and down.  For that very reason, if there is sudden explosive upside on any of them (very possible, read on), you could sell a small portion of your stocks and hold the rest for a few years.  But I would definitely hold on to as many of these stocks as you can.

Why?

According to the hyped up teaser copy, on February 5th ISCO will make an announcement which will cause the investment world to go bonkers (my words-though I think that would make good ad copy!) over the stock.  I’ve read elsewhere that such predictions in that newsletter have been wrong before   Still, what ISCO and these other companies are developing are easily miraculous technologies.  I haven’t read details on all the recommendations, but here’s my brief take on two of them:

1. Stock Ticker: ISCO.  Opportunity: Research and development of processes to extract cells from (potentially) any part of a subjects’ body, combine them with other regenerative cells, and either outright manufacture organs, tissue, or other body material related to the original area of extraction, or re-implant the combined original and regenerative cells to induce large-scale cellular repair and reconstruction in the host.

This means potentially repairing many (if not all) kinds of injuries that are not immediately fatal or catastrophic.  They have done an experiment extracting heart cells from mice genetically weakened to the point of suffering heart strokes (there is an entire market for mutant mice weakened one way or another, just for experiments like this).  They combined those heart cells with some of these regenerative cells, re-implanted them in the mice, and observed the mice hearts’ spontaneously rebuild themselves into vigorous, robust and youthful hearts.  The mice were given, essentially, new hearts–without any outside organ donation or invasive surgery.

Indications are that this process may be possible with all types of human cells.

The process utilizes parthenogenetic stem cells (I think?), which are created without destroying any human embryos (thus setting aside ethical objections).

2. The same company has developed a spray that rejuvenates aged and/or wrinkled skin.  Look at the before and after pictures in that first link. I would not be surprised if this product, when it hits the market, far outsells scores of competing skin care products and industries in one fell swoop.

3. Stock Ticker: NNVC. Opportunity: THE CURE FOR AIDS. THE CURE FOR EVERY TYPE OF FLU. NEUTRALIZATION OF ALL VIRAL CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS. THE POTENTIAL TO CURE ALL VIRUSES.

I’m declaring this well before it is “true”.  This is not by any means “official” in science or the press.  And yet after what I’ve read I cannot imagine it will turn out otherwise.  To my mind, it is fact already–awaiting widespread recognition.  They have done it.

How they did it was first fabricate inert imitation cells which have a protein signature on the surface identical to cells to which a virus attaches.  When these decoy cells are in the same host as a virus (and they have been tested in humans and various animals), the virus attaches to them and unloads its inner envelope – but since the inert imitation cell does not reproduce, the viruses’ inner envelope is simply discarded without damaging any real cells, and (I can only imagine) it then simply circulates out of the host without doing any harm.

They made a decoy which causes a virus to neutralize its own capacity to reproduce.

More about it at this other fellows’ blog post, and his more recent update on the stock or company.