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Boris Johnson backs plans to ALLOW thousands of Chinese and Russian jabbed delegates to Cop26 climate change summit in the UK despite vaccine not being recognised https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9846749/Boris-Johnson-backs-plans-ALLOW-thousands-Chinese-Russian-jabbed-delegates-Cop26.html

That’s right, Boris, turn us into a complete melting pot for the creation of a vaccine escape variant!

According to tweet from Merchant Banker, images from ODX Annual Report show Mologic tests labelled for home use.
https://twitter.com/merchantbanke18/status/1421129085233807360?s=21

Here's th helium beer clip ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9QHBgrPNY

Inspired by learning that the Spanish for leak is Perdita, I wondered what our old Mass Spectrometry friend Perdita Barran was up to these days. I put Perdita Barran and Avacta into Google and came up with this....
https://theanalyticalscientist.com/fileadmin/tas/pdf-versions/issues/0321_TAS_Issue.pdf

Where, on page 7 we find this news in brief...
Avacta Group and Bruker Corporation have entered into an agreement to evaluate the Adeptrix coronavirus antigen test, which is based on bead-assisted MS. This represents an exciting step towards implementing this high-throughput test in typical clinical microbiology lab workflows.

Then on page 24 is a feature on Perdita Barran talking about how mass spectrometry is potentially much better than PCR for Covid testing:

What is interesting to me in this area at the moment is comparing the abundance of viral protein (as found by MS) to viral RNA (as detected by RT-PCR). It may be that the viral protein abundance is a better indication of infectivity, as there are lots of reports of RNA hanging around much longer than an individual is infectious.

The other role for targeted MS will be to determine the presence of mutations in the virus. This diagnostic capacity could be extremely helpful in surveillance testing, as we will need to know if the vaccine continues to provide immunity – especially as new strains emerge.

Not quite sure what it all means, but it still sounds as though there's still plenty of potential in the MS field.

Come on, we're polyglots now!
Fuite! Perdita! Fuga! Leck!

I confess to being another Trek groupie getting in on the action here ;-)

As you know folks, I don't profess to know anything about TA, but I hang on your every word.... ;-)
I thought that if we broke through 27 we would be up and away..... What's happened? Have we sidetracked?

Best option - after hours suspension today, followed by Monday morning "We've hit the motherlode!"

You're obviously not invested in EUA. They have a strong track record of releasing RNSs on a Friday after market hours (even after 18:00!) So anything is possible.

Ian_ The Isles of Scilly hold some strong romantic memories for me too. If we are condemned to 'staycations' in the UK for ever, I will definitely try to go back there. (Even though the romantic link now resides in Adelaide.)

Enjoy! I seem to remember it has a tropical microclimate, so hopefully you'll be OK weather wise.

Mr A What's your point? Where's the harm in a recap of useful information? We have been through a lot of disappointment here recently, but I think that the announcement of a new testing regime is a sign that we can still profit from UK testing

It's going to be interesting to see how many Porton Down approved tests fail the new criteria.

OK Timster, MrA, it will be a MAXIMUM of 20 days before we get the stonking RNS that we are after on the testing front. That’s what I would call “shortly”!

Would be a great start to the day!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/desert-mountain-energy-announces-helium-125700676.html

So assuming that:
1) the new Gov guidance for COVID-19 test approval came into effect yesterday, booting Porton Down out of the picture
2) Avacta - in conjunction with Medusa - have already undertaken both the further clinical validation needed to comply with the new requirements and controlled testing of whether the test can work when self administered
3) They have now submitted the paperwork and paid the fee
We should be hearing whether we have home testing approval in about 20 days!

Strangely no mention of “X” - as per the gender fluid Musk offspring.

Wyn, isn't it pleasant to be in an atmosphere of pure helium rather than suffering the toxic hot air of the other board?

Do I sound like a stalker?

I'm really curious to know whose ISA is going to perform best this year - Trek's (full of TXP from what I can tell) or MrsTREK's (which at her insistance is full of HE1 and she's not selling any!) Hope he tells us.

My brand new investment philosophy is to slavishly follow every posting by TrekMadone and act accordingly. (Don’t tell him!)