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Defo Affimer. But we all knew that, yes?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-54116927
Sorry if this has been done already, I've been out of action.
Does anyone know any detail about the testing in this study?

@Zahir, but what will make this recover the 100%? I'm afraid I bailed out here about 3 weeks ago, all the wrong vibes, at about 4.5p...

I do wonder if there are any journos out there trying to be positive, you know the "we can build this" attitude. Even Dr John Campbell is being negative, if you've seen his latest news appearance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOLm82hRkg&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell

Who is Carole Cadwalladr anyway? Are her views something we should care about?

Grant Shapps? In the loop? Que?

Yes - same as airports taking matters into their own hands.

Anyone got any clue as to when these will appear, or have I missed it? 20th August in 2019...

....don't suppose many ppl listen to Five Live so maybe not too much to worry about...

@Steve - by "us" do you mean an ODX Antigen test e.g. one of the Mologic items?

OK thanks @Phantom and @Chengdo4 for your responses. Interesting to know the process is in-house and not subject to outsourcing, and the IP protected of course.

Useful post @mac, thanks for these reminders. I'm sitting on my position, tick tock as you say.

@Regulator - noted thanks and agree. AVCT are indeed behind in terms of time. I have position with that stock too, ODX is my largest by quite a chunk though.

Potentially silly question, but I've not seen this discussed. So, Avacta have the intellectual property to their innovation, the Affirmers, which I understand to be a patented/able class of proteins, which in this case act as the detectors (binders) for their test targets. So, for e.g. an LFT strip, manufactured in the millions by e.g. Abingdon/BBI, the latter provide/source the strip, the plastic, do the manufacture, QA and carriage packaging etc. Avacta provide vials/buckets of reagents as the key part of the recipe which e.g. Abingdon/BBI embed in the strip. Is that right? Is Avacta manufacturing the Affirmer reagents themselves, or is this outsourced unto MTA to others? Is Affirmer reagent manufacture capacity going to become a challenge?

People that volunteer for vaccine trials need medals/honours and material rewards too, seriously.

Great post GLR. Wish I was born in 1990, btw, ho hum. Getting old is no fun.

Tonic & MB - you are right, these could be in the mix sooner and therefore still enabling a Gov't strategy (mass testing "got it?" and "had it?") with the ingredients - the testing tools from a mix of what's available at the time. One manufacturer won't have the capacity anyway, so it may well be a mix. The app - Abingdon Health have something, AVACTA's online agent (Medusa19.com) for Direct to Consumer sales are developing in-house, I assume CTEA may have something too. I suspect there are more lurking (not NHS T&T app, I assume, but you never know - that would be the logical home of a blockchain driven app giving a warranty of the holder's status.

Investing dot com is great, and AdBlock (Chrome) does a decent job of clearing the ads most of the time. Every now and then as silles say the website fights back and the ads are there for a few days till AdBlock sorts it out and they are gone again. Constant battle!

...or later today once Boris has done his news conference? Not wanting to cross ramp but the solution to this who mess is as I have been saying for months is a combination of AVCT "have I got it" spit test and ODX "have I had it" stick test, and an App. AVCT is a little bit behind in terms of validations, so I think the mega announcement that I've painted may have to be split, as ODX is ready and can't be held. Buy what I've written is the outcome, IMHO.