Red flags aplenty are sprouting from the clinical trial results disclosed by Lipocine (LPCN) on Thursday.
Lipocine’s stock price rose by nearly half after the small biotech issued a press release touting “meaningful” reductions in liver fat demonstrated by its experimental pill in a clinical trial. The data don’t hold up to scrutiny.
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