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*What primer to select? There are regions of the genome that | *What primer to select? There are regions of the genome that | ||
*Influenza - virus. It's quite mutable | *Influenza - virus. It's quite mutable | ||
*Look at the sequence - it's random. Take a specific region. | |||
*Unique to COVID - take a gene sequence. | |||
=Controversy= | =Controversy= | ||
Revision as of 20:47, 22 March 2020
PCR
- Polymerase Chain Reaction -
- Need a marker for $50, which can do 1000 tests
- Need a lab
- Nobel Prize of 1985 for PCR
- Good for gene synthesis -
- Virus has been sequenced -
- Primers - to be sequenced -
- 10k - base pairs
- What primer to select? There are regions of the genome that
- Influenza - virus. It's quite mutable
- Look at the sequence - it's random. Take a specific region.
- Unique to COVID - take a gene sequence.
Controversy
- USA has very little testing, and as such, confirmed cases are underreported - [1]