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that you have all seen this. appologies if you have.https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-lateralflo/britain-begins-roll-out-of-rapid-covid-tests-to-schools-idUKKBN277241

I learnt a huge lesson from VRS. At one time I had a large holding in the company, but over a number of months I watched £56k leak away because I hung on in the hope of the "big one" which never came, however I did sell out for a reasonable profit, so if a share plateaus, as soon as it starts to fall, get out. I have been in AVCT since 2009 and yes, it has many collabs going on, but the potential is now staggering. The next two years will be transformational.

Is one of my dead ducks going to come back to life?

Always been my exact thoughts. Thanks RK.

Not forgetting the $100bn antibody market.

Would some knowledgable poster please explain why, instead of spitting on it, you don't just pop the end in your mouth for a few seconds and swill your saliva round it? If a lollypop will fit, I'm sure a test strip will.

The annoying thing with vrs was that I sold a load for my brother at £1.80. and my wife was nagging me to sell some of mine too. As you say, such fun. Anyway, enough of this, as we will get moaned at for straying from SLP. Good luck Velo. Good to talk.

Just one more point for you. I was invested in Versarien(VRS) and had a huge profit but because of indecision and believing the hype, I watched £56k gradually leak away over six months. You have to know when to sell an overblown share, and that's when the SP plateau's and starts to go down. That's my rule, all be it expensively learnt

When I first started in shares, I was going through a list of possible investments and Avacta popped up. The company had a machine called Optim which could reduce the validation time of a drug from years to months. It then developed a piece of kit called Midas that used Affimers to test animals for signs of certain ailments. Realizing the potential of Affimers, Avacta decided to sell the Optim technology and put the money to further research into the uses of Affimers. Affimers are like antibodies, but they only take 7 weeks to produce instead of up to a year and they are biospecific so there's no chance of them going to the wrong address in a manner of speaking. Despite there being many RNS's announcing yet further developements in Affimer technology, the SP refused to move. To cut a long story short, I gradually sold out of AVCT for a few years, but decided to build a position when Affimers were found to be able to deliver a chemo warhead directly to a cancer cell without wrecking the rest of the body, so the technology can deliver ten times the allowed chemo dose without any side effects on the patient. Now though, Affimers are being used in LFT strip tests that can detect covid 19 in saliva and give a result in a few minutes. Affimers also can attatch to the spike protien of cov19 and stop the virus from multiplying, but this only lasts for a month or so, but would be useful for protecting frontline staff. Affimers can also be employed in mass spectronomy machines for ultra accurate high throughput testing in hospitals. I've now built a sizeable holding in AVCT because the prospects are huge and the possibility of a multi billion pound takeover once the Affimers are proved safe in humans will be on the cards. Clinical trials start in early 2021. I also have a substantial holding in KEFI, SKIN and some in other smaller companies like Metal Tiger. I've only bought a few thousand quids worth of SLP, so next week might be interesting.

Ooh sarcasm.

I'm seriously into Avacta. Much better than Vegas.

Thought I'd buy a few of these to see what happens Monday. May even stick around after a bit of research.

Had some of these some while ago, but sold because they didn’t seem to be going anywhere. Bought back in this morning because the future looks very interesting and backed by a very good article by Simon Thompson in IC.

roofersam. You have held Avacta shares since the 90s?

I’M a long termer. Been here since 2009 in the days of Optim and Midas when the sp was .7p. I hold 56k shares and have no intention of selling any of them. I have met and lunched with AS and know exactly where I stand and where Avacta is going and that’s why I rarely post on here. It just makes me laugh when I read the amount of rubbish that’s posted on here as opposed to the extraordinarily well researched informative posts that quite often appear. So well done you experts and thank you.

Spike, shaver point.

It would be prudent to do it now because if Affimers prove to be safe in humans, not only is the cancer treatment massive, but the antibody market is also huge. The covid treatment is just petty cash. I'm completely against a Takeover unless the figure of £40 per share was mooted.

I refused to buy Fevertree at seven quid and that went up to £32, so I would say get in now before the big news.

And the $100 billion antibody market to attack. We just need to get Affimers into humans safely.

I wonder if anyone has thought about the disposal of millions of these contaminated test strips. We have a serious plastic problem now, so what’s it going to be like in the future. Perhaps there will be disposal points as for clinical waste.