As you may have seen earlier, we’ve been held back very substantially by European committees that have failed to meet since last year to approve the trial arranged with Neuromed Hospitals in Italy. Whilst we have had very positive responses from NHS Research in Scotland, in the UK it has…

Just to update everyone that we’ve been running a minitrial through the Chelsea pharmacy centre over the last few weeks, with the aim of getting the validation data that we are waiting for from Italy. The Italian trial is expected to go forwards, but it’s exciting to be seeing live…

Apologies to everyone for the delays in updates. The whole team has been working incredibly hard progressing towards the home test and completion of intermediate versions of the test for clinical trials to validate the COVID detection method.
Frustratingly the Neuromed trials in Campania received the first round of ethical approval…

For those of you who haven't yet heard separately, we're pleased to let you know that we received additional funding on 4th December and the Innovate UK grant was finally confirmed on 16th December - despite what we'd been told about the 1 November match funding deadline being strictly non-extendable!
So…

You'll see that another test, the LumiraDx SARS-CoV-2 Ag test is front paging the tabloids today as the 'Boots test'.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8878251/12-minute-Covid-test-expected-available-Boots-weeks.html .
Although this is getting media attention, it won't stop the spread of the virus or remove the need for restrictions and lockdowns:
LuiraDX is a test that is carried out…