Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab
by copperx on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:49AM
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Why is that? Is it really impossible to do the test on a simple PCR machine, or is it just too slow?
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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab
by gravelc on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:03AM
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pPCR is quantitative - measures fluorescence. End point PCR just measures whether you have the sequence there or not. It's slower, more work, and prone to false positives (see edit above).