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Paolo74. My advice is to follow your brokers advice and wait as they suggest. If indeed they are currently in process then your broker has actually done something, so my advice is wait to hear from them.

Sorry that was directed to Paolo74

@desoc Please email info@deepverge.com with an outline of your shares held and our IR department will forward them to the Company Registrar who will deal with your query. Please do not email any private account details in the first instance, unless requested to in a return email. We will certainly help get you sorted.

@Davidlaw. Helpful explanation of the protection rates and glad you explained that even with virus you can be infected, and infectious, but likely at a lower rate.

Your comment about testing lower after 18 months is very optimistic for a number reasons.

First World countries with higher vaccination programs will certainly see an easing but international travel, leisure industry such as Cruise Industries don't just go to 1st World destinations. These lesser countries will continue to see infections and so pose a threat of transmission greater than just popping down the school or mall transmission.

We may continue to have to maintain some mitigation as far as wearing of face masks and perhaps greeting strangers or even social distance in badly air changing rooms.

There is an article today which indicates that the South African variant 501.v2 poses a risk whereby it inhibits antibody treatments and shows that this virus intends to be around in many variants for many years. At this point, as we have been doi g for the last year, we are still trying to figure this virus out.

@trillsg you overlooked that any existing DNA test just gives you results and suggestions, or in-store made up Serum, probably for a few dollars more, but is very niche.

SKIN Trust is ingredient and company agnostic, is personalised to your skin, and suggestions on what to use and avoid is based on 13 years of data aggregated from 38,000+ pieces of skin grown and tested with thousands of ingredients.

As a global thought leader in the skin microbiome space, used by more than 50 beauty and skin care companies, most top 20 global companies, this is our domain and Labskin is the only company with such datasets to compare.

Just sayin' that you don't have to go to a store, you will be able to do this test in your own home.

@Chrysalis1 Modern Water revenues before 9th November will not be included in a DeepVerge trading update. Modern Water deal, which was 9th of November, and taking Christmas into the equation means a little over 1 month.

@Jonathansxx I had not seen that before and know absolutely nothing about it. However, without a single negative thing to say about Graphcore technology AI chip, I would say this about these advances, like many super-powered advances, they can be a solution in search of a problem. Think in terms of a winter tyre, designed for snow, on a formula one racing car. Not a criticism, just sometimes not necessary, even inappropriate.

DeepVerge operates on the simple premise of taking existing operational, tried and tested technology and combining the known capabilities of each component and applying their integration to deliver a solution to a known large scale, societal problem. Investment should already be done on all of the parts, in many cases 10's of millions of pounds spent to get it working the way it is supposed to. If there is development work to be done it should be as close to the market testing as possible. The history of each component must be unique to each component, should provide a suitable unique advantage to the combined unit, such as in Modern Water with 30 years of a supply chain and distribution channel for enhanced value-added equipment into the same market channel or Labskin's 13 years of unique data accumulated from growing and testing more than 38,000 laboratory grown skins in Labskin, or Rinocloud's 5 years of development of pathogen detection in real-time using nano-optofluidic microchips to capture and compare datasets of known pathogens using AI for instant alerts.

There are lots of examples from universities scrambling to deliver a component to solve the pandemic but wastewater based epidemiology has been around since John Snow in 1854 and will outlive COVID19 where 173 viruses exist in wastewater. The next time you drink water from a tap, consider that there is a lot of testing going on to ensure that you don't end up in ER with a dicky tummy. When global consumer corporations make a claim on a soap, a baby's diaper or a cosmetic company confirms the benefits of their product on your skin, they tested their product on something other than animals in the EU to make that claim, then it may well be from a Labskin test.

There are many layers to DeepVerge and its applied AI and IoT technology platforms. All generate rapidly growing revenues today, not the need for it "looking promising" for the jam of tomorrow.

@SloppyGuisseppe that is an interesting article and it is certainly becoming more and more evident that countries are taking greater control, either looking to set standards, establish greater oversight and it can mean failing capitalist water suppliers who under invest could become more under the control, if not ownership of more governments. That is a double edged sword. On the one hand greater investment is likely but greater bureaucracy means it could be a slow but steady progress over the next few years in monitoring water quality in and out of society.

Modern Water and the enhanced equipment puts DeepVerge at the leading edge with AI and IoT remote monitoring 24/7/365 government contract opportunities

@weedylan for a medical device 18 months is normal from having a prototype to get to market. So the fact that we are in the field testing at this point is quite fast. However, no amount of proof in a laboratory will provide confirmation that it all works, which is why we just moved to field trials.

We prefer to get it right and ensure accuracy, which is why we are building datasets, not just testing a piece of equipment. We have our own confirmation that the Affimers and Aptamers from both Avacta and Aptamer Group work. That is why we included them in our process.

We will update the market as new information can be released, which will be in the first quarter, not before.

@volmar the UK is not and has never been Modern Water's primary market. 30 years of water monitoring has resulted in over 60 countries. Modern Water plc acquired the watering division in 2011 and that was a company based in and headquartered in Delaware, US. In 2013, they established a sales and support office and team based in Shanghai. The same with the Osaka, Japan support office.

It actually is not a simlle matter to drop everything everywhere the company operates and focus on one country which has the only a small number of equipment installed.

We have contributed significantly to UK in 2020 by hiring many highly skilled jobs and growing employment, not putting any employees in furlough and as we head into 2021 employee numbers will grow because of demand.

We do not draw any grants for our COVID19 developments, even though we carry out much of the research in the UK.

The demand for our services, products and monitoring is growing, and our sales staff has increased in Ireland, for Spain, Italy, France and in US to help service demand in the markets that already exist.

There is a panic, but wastewater based epidemiology has been around since John Snow in 1854 when he halted the cholera epidemic in London. As much as we would like to help, we are racing into 2021 managing growth the best we can helping to save life's everywhere

Aptamers/Affimers are synthetic roughly 1/10 the size of monoclonal antibodies and are raised (grown/created) for the sole purpose of attaching to the specific targeted pathogen/virus.

The Aptamer/Affimers binds to the Spike Protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as they have an affinity to this particular Spike Protein. They function in the same way an ACE-2 receptor which allows the virus to infect the cell. The Spike Protein on the outside of the virus attaches to the ACE2 and so the Affimer/Aptamer acts in a similar way to the ACE2 of a normal cell.

SARS-CoV-2 S consists of a signal peptide (amino acids 1–13) located at the N-terminus, the S1 subunit (14–685 residues), and the S2 subunit (686–1273 residues); the last two regions are responsible for receptor binding and membrane fusion, respectively

The receptor binding is where the virus attaches to the cell. The virus can mutate, but so long as the S2 unit amino acid composition does not change, it will capture the virus.

The digitial signal in our Nano-photonics scan will change once the virus is captured by the Affimer/Aptamer whether it is the first or last strain of the virus, as I said, once the amino acid composition of the Spike Protein is the same.

Here's why: #Labskin subsidiary of #DeepVerge has been hiring all through 2020 despite #Brexit, despite #COVID19 because our focus is on delivering solutions for global #watercrisis, global pandemic #healthcrisis and helping our global partners improve the #skincare of the global population. With offices and laboratories in US, Ireland, UK, Poland, China and Japan, are you ready to join a global growth company? https://www.labskin.co.uk/careers/

@Chrysalis I referred to this in our recent DeepVerge Group update which is in the "Company Events" section of www.deepverge.com/investors/ page and it is in the following Tweet https://twitter.com/gjbrandon/status/1338522005029707776?s=20

You follow the instructions within the Skin Trust App (not released yet) swab your face (AI remote supervision will ensure you do it right), send it to our labs and results are send back to your app which includes everything about your environment, including local air quality to your area.

Good question @GarryParry.

There are a lot of known unknowns. If you get the vaccination there is a risk (not absolute) that you can still be infectious as the virus may be attacked, but could (possibly) be still be in the nasal and oral cavity. That could mean that breathing, singing, coughing, sneezing could still transmit to others. (No tests have been undertaken yet to show a vaccinated person is not infectious).

However, shedding of the virus in faeces requires that you have been infected with the virus and that it propogated through your digestive system.

If your immune system, via vaccination, is capable of fending off a heavy infection, it is unlikely that you would shed a lot because it would not duplicate and spread, but there is the potential that may not be the case. Right now, this is not clear.

What is evident (when you discount the positive spin from politicians who want to keep everyone upbeat, as they should), is that we are unlikely to be anywhere close to being back to some normality before 2022. Even GSK expect a vaccine late 2021. The logistics of Pfizer, Moderna and even AstraZeneka vaccines will take 12-18 months to be widespread among the developed world.

It only takes a handful of super spreaders to trigger breakouts. When you consider since 1976 there have been 25 outbreaks of Ebola. It's better and will get much better, but it's not over yet.

@M300 I suspect that the rate of demand for vaccines will far outstrip the supply for a very long time, so the chances of vaccines lying around for 3 weeks are very small at the outset. Vaccines, by their very nature are biological and there are reasons for holding them in cold storage (not unlike keep frozen food, frozen).

As for anything that DeepVerge can contribute, I suspect not.

Incidentally, we have been reviewing 2020 (internally) and realise that no revenues have come from anything related to COVID19, yet our growth rate continues to accelerate organically. Our client list is the who's who of skincare, health care, and recent signing of master service agreements with two global consumer product corporations allows us to see many months ahead.

I shall be reflecting on this in my Proactive Interview tomorrow and will be sitting down with Zak Mir at his ZaksTradersCafe on Wednesday to discuss all things DeepVerge 2020 and looking ahead to 2021 in a world dominated by COVID19.

@trillsg I have done that previously and even today, but then comes the deluge of DM's "Demanding" an RNS.

Will find a mid-way through the mire :-)

@Paulcon62 don't worry I have a thick skin and will only respond to disingenuous comments from third parties. I know the value of RNS. I am a large enough shareholder myself but I tend to reflect on a quote by Warren Buffett when it comes to the share price, as a long term investor.

“Games are won by players who focus on the playing field - not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”

My point, which is not meant to be an argument or even a reflection to any opinion of any shareholder, was to highlight the score or share price is important at the end, but so long as we are delivering the results before the score is final, the score board will reflect the hard work that goes into growing the company that is built over time, not overnight.

It might be useful to remind many commentators that our clients and customers don't read RNS announcements. Greater than 80% have English as a second language. We announced a recent shipment to Peru, where all communication was in Spanish. The latest tweet on India (Gujarat Province speak Gujarati) and China (Hangzhou speak Mandarin). Our PR works fine in the place it needs to be and the triple digit growth rate is testament to us getting the PR that is important to the top and bottom line. So long as the growth rate keeps going, the share price will look after itself.

https://twitter.com/gjbrandon/status/1336672698760654850?s=20

@Hutchy a key sentence in that article is this....

The technique may also be used to track how successful the vaccination has been in protecting the population.

Every day, millions of tests are carried out on water samples to ensure quality, to meet government regulations and to maintain safety. There are approximately 100 substances controlled by regulations that need to be tested on a regular basis.

Potable water, swimming pools, wastewater and beverages are tested for such variables as chlorine levels, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and the presence of microorganisms such as E coli bacteria, cryptosporidium and legionella.

Boiler water in industry and utilities is tested for chemical concentrations. Groundwater is tested for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), herbicides and pesticides, as well as nitrogen, phosphorus, and magnesium nutrients. Leachate water emanating from old mines and municipal landfill is tested for arsenic, mercury and other harmful metals.

The market for water testing each year is $4.5 billion. Students jumping down manholes testing for COVID19 is just a fad. Long after their grants and Thesis are published, the remote, automated, realtime equipment that were developed in an accelerated program to help with one pandemic will ensure that the future is a little safer. Society causes the pollution, so someone needs to help fix it. MicrotoxPD goes a long way to deliver that.