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The COVID tests have their own future value, which will be significant, but the success of those test wills surely also shine a spotlight on the brilliance of affimer technology generally.

Lucky for us we own that tech..

Luck for us

Says it all really...

https://twitter.com/BigBiteNow/status/1292785652870844417

Ophidian

As ever, you are the very definition of humility! A slight adjustment to another famous film quote, just for you;

“Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the greatest of them all?”

It is one thing to be clever and to share expertise, which you undoubtedly have, with grace and manners - BBN is a fantastic example. It is quite another to share it with pomposity and condescension.

Regrettably you have been filtered.

Because those performance parameters have not yet been clinically validated

Another lovely interview!

My mistake - apologies Monkshood

Surely it will be a reference PCR test

People should remember that AVCT are condensing a process that normally takes 18 months. Any competitor has to go through the same process and trying to go too fast can cause problems, as seen yesterday with Sona and OraSure.

The news today is nothing but positive and we should not forget that advanced procurement conversations with the UK govt may well be going on behind the scenes, for both BAMS and LFT, given where both are in the CONDOR process.

I am not selling a bean

Not forgetting CONDOR and potentially RadX as well

No - both Antigen. Sona painful NPS delayed after the FDA changed its TPP at the end of July and OraSure delayed because it’s swapped to nasal rather than Saliva sampling.

If,as I believe, AVCT have managed to create a saliva test that will satisfy UK/US test performance parameters then we may well have become the front runner. This is particularly so when we have just partnered with BBI, given its world leading expertise and Novarum offering.

Aah - they’re going to do I entirely from scratch. Gotcha......

B2H -agreed!!

Not sure how relevant this is, but the USA today article I posted earlier referred to an essential list of medicines, suggesting Trump might use and perhaps shorten this. Here is that WHO list

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/325771/WHO-MVP-EMP-IAU-2019.06-eng.pdf?ua=1

Clearly our test isn’t on it, nor are other antigen tests.

But that of course doesn’t mean the idiot won’t make up his own list entirely, even if it does mean depriving US citizens of the best tests avaialable!

A bit more info..

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/06/trump-ohio-president-order-essential-drugs-made-usa/3297875001/

Agree Matt -apart from the news itself this was the key paragraph for me. Tells me there is great confidence in the test and the demand for it.

For info re roll out of sewage testing across the England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53635692

Great post Ophidian - thank you.

Do you have a view on when we might discover who our manufacturing partners are, and what capacity they might have? Thx

Occurred yesterday and now today. Is there anything we can discern from this or it it just coincidence (or meaningless)? Thx

As always some really interesting thoughts from Ophidian, which may explain the “delay”. I am a little confused, however, because the TPP templates from June and July already included a bio security requirement for an early viral deactivation step in the test process, so I’m not clear what additional step Ophidian is suggesting, and if there is a further requirement, why the TPP hasn’t been further updated to reflect it?

Apologies for any ignorance or criminal stupidity on my part! Hopefully this may go unanswered if we get an RNS in a few mins!

Agree with PL75. GDR is temperature stable so lends itself to hotter climates like India, but it does seem to be in a crowded space and I have little confidence in the commercial acumen of the CEO. Low current mkt cap is a plus however.

Just to add - here is the Medusa19 Life Sciences Ltd (the Peter Whitehurst company) landing page http://medusa19lifesciences.com/.

Notice the logo and compare to https://www.medusa19.com/