OK so you thought the title of the other thread was out of date BUT unfortunately there is no way to edit thread titles.

So here is a new title

This one has got the charts at the top again & has a link to the old one.
http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=5021

I have now seen a copy of a letter sent out by Professor Norman C Nevin GTAC Chairman, warning of concerns over the safety of some lentiviral gene therapy vectors. This states that reports have been received of the development of liver tumours in a pre-clinical study using lentiviral vectors. Most of the tumours occurred in a group of mice that had been treated in utero with a vector carrying the factor IX gene, although a small number of tumours were also observed in animals that had been treated neonatally or had received vectors carrying only marker genes.

The letter states that the number of mice involved is small and the wider implications are not yet clear. It also says that these observations do not appear to affect any current or previous UK trials so I have no idea how this affects OXB.

Not a problem, OXB have something for tumours aswell :)

lol well thats ok then :-)

Should be able to get a better price soon by the look of things.

has great potential...50p on the cards.

You heard it here first!

Now seem to be for general distribution,

http://www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk/genetics/gtac/lentiviruses-1104.pdf

From the other place

Martin C-J - 11 Nov'04 - 15:34 - 13770 of 13785

I never usually post a response from an email but this time I will make an exception. I just received this a few seconds ago. I hope Alan Kingsman does not mind:

Dear Martin

Andrew Wood passed your e-mail to me. We have been aware of the information in the GTAC letter for some time. Let me reassure you that the vectors used in the study were not those that we use in the clinical products and in a vast range of animal experiments conducted over many months for our various products we have never seen a single adverse event caused by the vectors let alone any tumour induction.

Yours

Alan Kingsman

Rumours persist from the other place. Might be best to sit on the sidelines until resolved one way or the other - could be a bumpy ride short term. Medium-long term it's a quality company with some great technologies.

Still looking at this one,my be in soon.

buy in on weakness

I am thinking along those lines hlyeo98 , but a seem to be buying a lot of longs at the moment ..

I spoke to Alan Kingsman by phone and got the same information as Martin. Not only did he confirm the email response above, but mentioned that the "Academic Group" that ran into a problem with its mice were trying to do something quite different and were, in effect, using "problematic mice" to start with

My take on my conversation with Alan Kingsman yesterday, in clarifying the scope of the GTAC notice (see MJC email above also) was that he sounded supremely confident - imo

Oh well, drifting down again.

I'm waiting for 16p to buy some more.

Let the guys behind the scenes get on with it, sp will eventually reflect their work and achievements.

16 you say apple , now that would be nice ..

Now at 18p

Looking at the one year graph above, is there any analysts out there who can explain this one. As this is a high risk stock, is this why no pattern has emerged.

Down another 5.5%

Still hoping for 16p to buy some more.

what is going on ???? we need some good news please

It will come eventually but I hope we reach 16p first.