Ryan Mee, CEO of Fulcrum Metals, reviews FY23 and progress on the Gold Tailings Hub in Canada. Watch the video here.
I’m fairly confident this was quashed during one of the recent investor presentations? I’m sure someone asked if Affimers were being used by Moderna in their vaccine development. To which he said no?
Is this old news, sorry if so...
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As well as making testing more convenient, it is hoped that a speedier diagnosis will enable doctors to make quicker decisions on the future care plans of their patients.
Speaking to The Today Programme, Prof Hayward said this morning: “There are a wide range of different, innovative tests that have been developed by our UK life sciences industry and more internationally. They don't all use swabs, some of them are looking at saliva and they don't all use the same sort of chemicals that the lab tests would need so they give us a different sort of route to getting these answers.
“Ideally you take a test, you put it straight into a machine or run it through something that looks a bit like a pregnancy test and it gives you the answer, so the shortest ones that we are looking at are about 15 minutes.
“It could be either a saliva test or swab test, it's about the way that the test tries to work to find out if the virus is in the system or not.”
The CONDOR, which is a UK Government and National Institute for Health Research funded study, will have to meet strict conditions before any tests are made publicly available.
Coronavirus tests which could deliver results within fifteen minutes are set to be trialled in care homes and hospitals, Oxford university scientists have revealed.
Prof Gail Hayward, an associate professor at the university's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, said researchers are developing rapid saliva and swab tests which could eventually be used at home to diagnose coronavirus.
She is leading the Covid-19 National Diagnostic Research and Evaluation Platform (CONDOR), a new national research programme evaluating the accuracy of different tests in various clinical settings.
Environments in which the virus is known to be particularly active, such as care homes and GP surgeries, are being targeted for trials in the hope they will be able to deliver results faster than in settings with a lower prevalence of the disease.
While acknowledging quick tests can be less accurate than longer ones, the scientists are looking at a range of speeds which can provide results from between fifteen minutes to a “few hours maximum”.
At present, the main test used to detect Covid-19 can take up to 72 hours as it involves sending samples away to laboratories.
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A new saliva test for coronavirus could help ministers to meet Boris Johnson's 24-hour target for showing whether a patient has the disease.
The Government is in talks with a British firm about rolling out a test that would involve suspected Covid-19 patients spitting into a tube and posting the sample to a lab.
One expert involved with the project said the firm was aiming to produce test results within one hour of the samples arriving at labs.
The disclosure comes after the Prime Minister promised that by the end of the month the majority of test results would be produced within 24 hours.
Health officials have been holding talks with Chronomics, a firm producing a saliva test which could be examined at many more labs than swab tests because the tube contains a solution that "inactivates" the virus.
Under government rules, live samples of the virus can only be examined by labs with highly specialised equipment that confirms to its highest "containment level".
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