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I think you will wipe the floor

And we have a very early entry for post of the week....

At the risk of returning to the "have I got flu's for you" I found this paper

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28220811/

Whilst it describes aptamers (an affimer competitor) it describes RSV - a potentially dangerous virus in infants and geriatrics.

Its not a big leap to imagine a test with several lines on a stick for each virus. Covid, RSV, Flu, Nova virus etc etc. Hell make them each a different colour and just hope you don't get the full house.

Once you have the affirmers you could also send them to SKIN and their kit could be placed in schools, cruise ship, care homes etc. We may be at a paradigm shift in terms of public health surveillance rather than clinical diagnostics but all reliant on molecules such as affirmers.

Reminds me of John Snow and the Cholera

Winter is Coming

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167791v1

He has spelt salivate wrong

Ok i did it for you. No charge but maybe an apology for Canute....

Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) Tweeted: This simple, accurate saliva test could soon be first test authorized for asymptomatic screening and may be lowest cost test to hit market with ability to be pooled. It’s independent of supply chains. Runs in 2 hours. Owes to work of NBA, Yale docs, others https://t.co/h2bMJjdjSJ https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1292267946920812544?s=20

I was board yesterday too

If Canute takes that course will you take the course on scrolling down the guys other tweets - you will see he mentions it later.

I'm going with SalivaDirect and the ThermoFisher device. Suspect it will be under a EUA.

Picture a scene.

**** monitoring in place CHECK

Alarm signal from Stockley Park. Squat Squad rush round and test everyone in a 3 mile radius. Lockdown whilst it happens. 3 days later test again.

All positive tests track and trace combined with isolation. Positive tests confirmed using the new gold standard of BAMs enabling live monitoring of virus mutations.

People in Newcastle can relax. Unless they flew in to Heathrow.

I'm thinking news from SKIN too - CEO just happened to retweet about cruise ships. He seems quite the partnership builder - they asked him about his nearest competitor and he said great company, great product, great idea. He is bloody smug for a reason.

Yep - nicely distilled. Hope it is widely read.

From a value perspective a split would make sense - most potential acquirers are one or the other. Maybe they will spin the pharma bit off?

Sir Al will have a better idea of the margins and f/c for the Dx. I suspect he wants to get this launched as proof of concept and be able to point at one of those hockey stick graphs. I get the impression is heart is in the pharma bit so can see Abbott or Danaher making an offer he cannot refuse.

I see £2.2B - any advance?

I suspect we both therefore intend to exit late November or £9.90

Insert big winky yellow head

Interesting thoughts Ken. I'm sanity checking my own

If "Avacta test, we can expect every reason for simple rapid tests to be come the only way to test" why are we developing a BAMS test.

In terms of Iron fillings and magnets do we have an indication of affinity - particularly compared to antibodies. My understanding is that all LFDs rely on binding reagents ?

Agree £10+ before Xmas - otherwise I'm going to have to cancel the kids holiday and not eat for a month

Seconded - I take my hat off to you SleepyDave. Very generous.

Too rampy?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/covid-19-diagnostics-market-size-worth-7-8-billion-by-2027-l-cagr-5-96-grand-view-research-inc-301105316.html

Is user ability testing required?

Nasal admin of interferon discussed on the other board too.