The bottom line here is Angle's Parsortix machine does26 Sep 2024 14:37
Catch circulating tumour cells (CTC's), 99% of them still alive and intact. No one can argue with that. It's easy in retrospect but the Company made a very serious error thinking the Pharma Co's would finance the assays (tests) that are needed to interrogate the CTC's and then the Parsortix machines would fly off the shelves. Massive, massive mistake. Few Pharma Co's were willing to spend the money creating the assays. I think this is wrong and has held back cancer research. The ones that looked into what they could do and then because of the cost of developing the assays did nothing should be ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. It MUST have held back cancer research, and they are to blame. I suspect this has happened numerous times. I say again THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. Angle have now developed some state-of-the-art assays themselves, HER2, PD-L1 etc. Also, they have the dual analysis of CTCs and CtDna from a single blood sample that they are working on. All is not lost by a long chalk. I find it totally astonishing no large Pharma Co's have yet made an offer to buy Angle and get the Parsortix technology. I say this. Analysing circulating tumour cells is in it’s infancy. These huge Pharma Co’s are taking a huge risk that a discovery will be made that makes analysing live intact circulating tumour cells incredibly valuable.
All IMHO.