RE: Angle Plc. Illumina "Liquid Biopsy and NGS: Driving translational clinical research to the next level">>19 Mar 2024 08:38
Moab.
"No, Carrot, I am not a troll. I just find pointless repetition rather irritating, (as at 10.40 and 10.41) as I suspect do others. I also prefer posts to be accurate, and to the point. I have read the .pdf carefully which I why I made my post @ 10.08. I am not trying to provoke anything beyond an explanation. I repeat; what was your point in drawing attention to this.pdf?".
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Are you sure you are not having a laugh? I honestly think you are. Or you want me to explain the relevance because you have a long position and don't think some on here would understand it? Is that it??
The Illumina web page (see link below) is entitled "Liquid Biopsy and NGS: Driving translational clinical research to the next level". The ***"NEXT LEVEL"***. You do know what a liquid biopsy is don't you? You simply must know that Angle's machine can catch a single LIVE intact circulating tumour cell (ctc) from a standard blood sample. 99% caught using their Parsortix machine are LIVE and intact, ideal for analysing. Other competing systems often kill and/or and damage the ctc.
Angle Plc's RNS announcements of 4th and 20th Jan 2024 say they found "actionable DNA variants" in the circulating tumour cells that could not be found in the same persons CtDNA blood plasma test (general blood test to find, then test for actionable CtDNA). Even though both tests were done using ONE BLOOD SAMPLE FROM THE SAME PERSON. Exactly the same NGS methods were used. According to Angle that was previously either unknown, or I think had been noticed in some study's but it's significance not appreciated. Does in not occur to you that "the next level" may well, no, is likely to include analysing the cct's for "actionable DNA variants"? Actionable DNA variants being DNA that can be ****targeted by modern drugs to help cure cancer****.
Some extracts from the Illumina article:-
"Next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods enable highly sensitive and specific detection of known mutations."
As per Angle's RNS's they found some of these in the CtC's.
"More recently, comprehensive assays are being developed to analyse a wider range of candidate genes and variant types for new tumour’s that do not have known variants. As these methods evolve, ctDNA analysis for various applications such as screening, therapy selection, monitoring, and identification of therapy resistance is gaining prominence as a method for monitoring disease state."
https://emea.illumina.com/content/dam/illumina-marketing/documents/products/appspotlights/ngs-liquid-biopsy-app-spotlight-1170-2019-007.pdf
All IMHO.