Bioprogress is a stock I have been in and out of quite a few times since it floated in May but not much mention here on the Investors' Room. Does anyone else follow this stock. I see it is up 1.5p today and a few good buyers seem to have appeared.

Nice little firm, Micap. Won't do Bioprogress any harm to be involved with them.
See www.micap.co.uk

Bioprogress helps medicine go down
By Rosie Murray-West, City Correspondent (Filed: 24/08/2004)


The expression "a bitter pill to swallow" could soon become obsolete if patients warm to a new type of medicine - a postage-stamp sized film that dissolves on your tongue.



Graham Hind, the chief executive of Bioprogress, said the company was working on delivering prescription drugs via the tiny film pieces, similar to the breath freshener strips that have become popular across the UK.

You can already take vitamins and some herbal supplements in this way, and Mr Hind said there was no reason why the films should not eventually replace conventional tablets for many pharmaceutical products.

"There's still a lot of work to be done," he said, adding that the company would need to be able to guarantee an even distribution of the active drug across a large area of film, as well as disguising the bad taste of some substances.

However, in some cases the strips could prove more effective than traditional tablets, because the active agent is so concentrated and distribution is immediate. People who find capsules and tablets difficult to swallow would also have an easier time.

Aim-listed Bioprogress said yesterday that it has entered into a six-month option agreement with Micap to evaluate a micro-encapsulation technology for smoking cessation products. The Micap technology uses dead yeast cells as natural capsules to protect an active ingredient. This would protect the active agent, but release it immediately on contact with mucus in the mouth.

"With smoking cessation you want it to be instant," Mr Hind said, adding that the film could be a replacement for medical chewing gum that claims to stop cigarette cravings. The yeast technology also has the potential to instantly release a flavour on the tongue, which would mask the bad taste of a pharmaceutical ingredient.

Bioprogress owns a number of patents on using cellulose film to wrap conventional tablets and to use as capsules. It is being evaluated by a number of large companies that are keen to stop using gelatine in their capsules because of the possibility that it could spread CJD.

Bioprogress shares rose 2.5 to 95p. Micap shares, also listed on Aim, rose 5 to 48p.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/08/24/cndrug24.xml&sSheet=/money/2004/08/24/ixcity.html>

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Smaller stock to watch

Micap, the AIM-listed yeast encapsulation specialist, added 5p to 48p on granting BioProgress a six-month option to evaluate the application of its techniques to develop products for smoking cessation. BioProgress, up 2p at 95p, has developed films that dissolve in the mouth as an alternative to gums, patches and other methods to deliver nicotine.


http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8211-1229903,00.html

Looking better all the time

Colgate Palmolive launches new toothpaste in US using BioProgress' SoluleafTM technology


http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200408240700092408c.html

Oh dear big AL,institutions not getting on board..more fool them and now colgate...dil,scottie where are you twerps?????Big al,buy,buy,buy...or is it bye,bye bye!!!!

Don't worry nematode. ;-)))))

Nematoad you are a true genius and I take my hat off to you.

Pity we couldn't see this coming 4 weeks ago Al , you would have thought nematoad would have told his mates when it hit the bottom :-)

Dil - I was far too blinkered to see this as a long last month. Oh deary me. ;-)))))

Oh well we'll just have to hope nematoad chucks a few pennies in the bucket when we end up begging on street corners.

He might need to lend me a few bob to buy my bucket. LOL!

Big Al,
I don't know why you bother, lack of DD-ing must be getting you bored LOL

How you doing, John? Good to see you still holding (I presume?). Rough ride!

;-)

Ah well boys....you still have chance to load up.......or do you want me to buy the bucket..hee,hee!!!!

spare a penny guv ?

Is it worth toppin up or are we likely to see a fall back after all this good news? Am in for the long term but wonder if anyone has any views on where this is likely to go?

AdieH - should pull back, but when did BPRG ever do anything it "should" do.

I'd top up myself if nematode would lend me a couple of stock certs. LOL!!!!

Topped up a little today, in for long term... Showing a nice paper profit at
present. Good luck to all holders.

Big Al,
Still holding, plus a few more just over 60p. Not really in these for the short term

Hi Big Al, Dil

I hope that you did tuck away a few, but I suspect that you'll keep them close at hand rather than necessarily for the long term.

One should certainly never fall in love with any share but I'm sure that you can perhaps now understand a little better that this seems a somewhat different to the norm to many people - the stuff of dreams maybe.

There should be one or more pull-backs but perhaps the few percent inter-day movements will have to do. If there are no more shares to be issued, although I suspect that BM will sell some of his 10m, then the ADR take-up alone could be very significant for the SP.