Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
@Pigster - the questions are usually short and punchy but then the questioner gets a second bite of the cherry to give their perspective after one or two answers. Therefore can I suggest keep some powder dry and simply ask:
"How is the government in their words "moving heaven and earth to support he UK diagnostics industry" when they cancel contracts, demand refunds and delay payments to UK companies whilst all the time spending Billions of pounds buying Chinese Lateral Flow Tests that other countries regulators have said should be thrown the the bin?"
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@biffa - why are you addressing this to me ? Have you read my Twitter record for the last month ?
Some of us have been doing something about it not just posturing on a BB - but hey, I'm sure someone will be along soon to spread some joy
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@Blackcat1963 just reference the 15th Dec RNS. I have already supplied this and much much more ahead of wednesdays parliamentary debate. They will have to account ultimately for their choices and incompetence.
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worth pointing out the CE mark for Home use is not simply by self-declaration but is controlled by review by a notified body. Therefore CTDA should be an irrelevance in terms of this risk assessment.
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for anyone interested these articles talk about the hinge (it's fragility) and how it works.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20321-x
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd5223
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@Blackcat1963 - to be honest, I'm happy to see him get his comeuppance when the independent scrutiny is ordered. However - that said. Freezing causes a topographical change change on the surface of the viron with the spikes hinging into the positions they adopt after infection. Therefore when the binding site is in the area of the hinge then clearly this cannot work. The key question for Porton Down and by extension Prof. Peto to answer is why can multiple independent labs utilising live clinical samples demonstrate time after time with reproduceable and consistent results that the the AffiDX LFD detects ALL variants of concern for patients with viral loads in the infectious range when the SIMULATED test method employed at PD cannot. - Answer - the SIMULATED product is not actually truly representative of the model it seeks to simulate. I doubt a Human could actually be infected with COVID19 using their frozen substrate.
It might well be fine for the N protein as there is less deformation and change by freezing but for the S it is clearly a flawed methodology
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Brilliant @Poirot - that is exactly it thanks.
I've been emailing with Neale Hanvey this morning preparing him for the debate in Parliament on wednesday and this was a link I wanted to share but couldn't find.
Thanks again
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To all the genuine Avacta holders may I take this opportunity to wish you a safe and happy Christmas with your friends and families.
The good news flow is just starting I think we have an exciting time ahead of us. For me with the HUA news and with the AVA6000 IND approval from earlier this share is now totally de-risked and it is simply a matter of time to see meaningful appreciation in the share price too. Don't let the disingenuous trick you out of being part of the success.
Once again my best wishes for a safe, peaceful and happy Christmas.
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Porton Down Frozen samples and why that failure is good for detecting the Omicron variant
https://twitter.com/Ophidian18/status/1464736407373717505?s=20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41401-020-0485-4
https://covariants.org/shared-mutations
Nextstrain / ncov / gisaid / global
ESCV 2021 industry symposium - rising to the challenge of future pandemics - Avacta Life Sciences [around 59 minutes]
https://avacta.wistia.com/medias/75lszkgp3v?hss_channel=lcp-3342419
And yet - never having contributed anything of substance at all - you felt the need to start with abuse - and you wonder why nothing gets shared here worth seeing. There is info out there - those of us who can communicate without the attitude and agenda share it and - yes look down on the dumb ingrates who flounder and twist to the tune of the trolls twang that banjo Billy