Ya beauty! We are just about ready to smash testing globally.11 May 2020 08:18
2 things that are outstanding from this mornings RNS:
The Affimer reagents have also now been studied further by Avacta and, importantly, this has shown that there are Affimer reagents that can work in pairs, both binding to the spike protein at the same time. This allows tests to be developed that detect both the intact virus particle and the detached spike proteins which become separated from the virus particle during the development of the COVID-19 disease, which may also be important in monitoring disease progression.
There has been considerable commercial interest in these reagents since we announced that we had successfully generated them. The Group is very actively exploring further commercial opportunities to develop them with partners into diagnostic tests and with distributors to provide large scale routes to market for professional and home use.