Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab

Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by joshuamcginnis on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:51AM (#22635305)

FYI, the same core equipment and supplies will also allow you to do dna-based lab work, such as crispr/cas and fingerprinting for phylogeny, at home. If you're clever, you can replicate the same cutting-edge work step-by-step from published research papers and then use that knowledge to run your own experiments.

I'm currently working on adding the gene for bioilluminescence to p. cubensis fungi. If I can successfully breed offspring with the desire genotype, I hope to sell the novel spores and use those funds to invest in a variety of altruistic research like individualized DNA-based cancer treatment.

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by voldacar on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:58AM (#22635858)

How hard is it to get started doing stuff like this? Do you need thousands of dollars of lab equipment or is the entry barrier relatively low? Making your own bioluminescent genetically modified organisms sounds really neat

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by subroutine on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:35AM (#22636718)

You need a set of pipettes, a thermal cycler (i.e. https://www.ebay.com/b/PCR-Thermal-Cyclers/185231/bn_1153835... ), some consumables (i.e. pipette tips, vials, gels), reaction reagents (listed by the top level comment), a centrifuge, and probably some other things I'm forgetting. For some reactions you are much better off using a quantitative PCR machine but those are quite expensive.

If you just want to use molecular biology to make things glow see: https://www.minipcr.com/products/p51-molecular-glow-lab/

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by voldacar on Friday March 20, 2020 @08:21AM (#22636940)

thanks so much, this will be a fun rabbit hole i think

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:24AM (#22635714)

Governments could open source all patents and design specifications for all relevant technology.

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