The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
54retiresoon (21:18) - "A takeover looks less likely after this deal but FTSE 100 looks more likely IMO."
If our SP was £10.30 today, then that would give us a mk cap equivalent to the company with the lowest mk cap today in the FTSE 100.
May be a stupid question but where will the plastic slides themselves be made? I assume Avacta don't have the manufacturing machinery or expertise to do that. Who will supply the slides? Who will get / or already has what could well be a decent contract?
JiffyBag - (1:18) -
"The issue is, can affirmer technology be the only solution to thwart this growing threat, and be sufficiently developed faster than the time required to create and test a succesful vaccine?"
So perhaps - 'remember affimers are not just for covid-19, they could perhaps be for life'.
Of human-kind perhaps? #justsaying !
OK, A bit OTT & fanciful that, I guess - but as others have pointed out, that Horizon programme really was full of fascinating factual information accompanied by new thoughts and ideas.
Be certain to watch it folks.
I like this in the Avacta blog:
"Through our collaboration with Cytiva, our SARS-COV-2 binders will be implemented into LFA test strips to develop both professional POC-use and consumer self-tests."
It does not say "Avacta expects to....." or "Avacta hopefully may....." - but simply just "binders WILL be implemented....".
So oozing confidence hopefully, and not just loose choice of words!
I note that Cardiff and Liverpool Universities are conducting studies on mouth washes to see to what extent they destroy the virus.
I suppose if they do I guess they could possibly have a part-prophylactic role, and might be used as an adjunct in home management of milder infection.
The WHO, however, is dubious whether they would have a significant effect.
Listerine is one mouthwash which contains alcohol (about 26% in fact) so perhaps it might well have some viricidal effect against SARS-Cov2.
Also - use of such mouthwashes could invalidate saliva-based antigen tests (and PCR ones). If so that would have to be included in end-user instructions for the Avacta test. Such instructions as a whole would of course be part of our submission to the regulatory bodies.
Finally, if antiseptic mouth washes were shown to be of any value, that likely would get more of a passing mention from Donald Chump - heaven forbid!
Sky News - Pref Peter Openshaw, Professor of Experimental Medicine, at Imperial College has just said "I guess it's good to have targets set by the Government, but I do not think we will have widely available vaccine until the end of NEXT year."
He added that he hoped that they might be in a position to start clinical trials next coming winter.
MALTBY 2002 - I don't set stop losses on smaller cap less traded mainstream stocks either, not just AIM. I've been taken out by MM's down spikes.
Any stops I set are kept to myself! I agree phone alerts are helpful..
SiriusB (11:10). "For me the sensitivity needs to be 95%+ for this to be a game changer. 80% will not set us apart from the competition enough. AS knows what the FDA, WHO and market are looking for as a set of requirements of the test and hence when he’s talked about this test in the past he has had that in mind."
Absolutely agree SiriusB. That's all that needs to be said on this really, IMO!
Quite Ophidian. We have had these discussions before. It rather irritates me when you see these terms banded about so loosely. So I've pretty much given up contributing to this particular topic on the board, preferring the quiet life - especially on a Sunday !
You have a good day.
MR.Spacetomato and gmcc - thanks so much for putting up that video. I had not seen it before. I did not understand it all, and need to watch it again...… and again I fear!
But the more one can know about the products one is investing in, the better the investor one becomes - IMO!
So some time spent is worth it.
Shearclass (06:40)
"Affimers have never been in a human. So firstly AVCT need to prove their safety before anyone would even consider a therapeutic. That’s years away even if everything went like clockwork."
The thing is Shearclass that affimers are based on a simple protein called Stefin A. This is a human protein which occurs naturally and has quite a widespread distribution in our bodies; it is extremely unlikely, if not impossible, that it would cause a problem if given as such therapeutically.
If you want some details - stefin A is a cysteine proteinase inhibitor - it is a member of a large naturally occuring so-called "family" of such compounds, collectively usually referred to as cystatins.
If some children are able to return to school in the not too distant future (which seems to be favoured by the authorities) wouldn't it be very useful if our antigen test was available at that time? Kids could be tested on arrival at school, and if clear could then spend that day at least back at school.
With no worries or concerns to themselves or to school staff.
Although this dreadful disease seems less prevalent in youngsters we are unsure at the moment to what extent they might be asymptomatic carriers and therefore still be able spread the virus when back at home.
minimal said "If you see two blue lines take one pill each day for 14 days and re-test. One blue line indicates you do not have Covid."
A tad fanciful perhaps ………………………………………………… but it did make I laff (as they say here in the Cotswolds).
turnkey17 (08:03) . Well receptor blockers are used extensively in the treatment of high blood pressure, and so may do a lot of good- rather than harm! We would all be better off with a slightly lower BP - I cannot imagine that blockade does people with a normal BP much harm. Not compared to harm from COVID-19 !!
AZN and GKZ are working on "manufactured" antibodies according to the posts from RD and others yesterday. They will will now know all about these revolutionary affimers now and I imagine they'll be talking with Alastair this morning, if they haven't already!
I can't get over this RNS, and I'm normally a very relaxed and calm person I do assure you !!!!
I'm pleased I had a small top-up yesterday on the dip in price, as there won't be many more of those for the time being.