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*Look at the sequence - it's random. Take a specific region. | *Look at the sequence - it's random. Take a specific region. | ||
*Unique to COVID - take a gene sequence. | *Unique to COVID - take a gene sequence. | ||
*$100- for 100 or so tests | |||
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=Controversy= | =Controversy= | ||
Revision as of 20:51, 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.
- $100- for 100 or so tests
Controversy
- USA has very little testing, and as such, confirmed cases are underreported - [1]