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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by puzzlingcaptcha on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:25AM (#22635724)
I wonder if primers are in short supply? CDC authorized only two kits. Are the sequences known? Can you custom order/synthesize your own?

edit: sequences are apparently here https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/rt-pcr-p...

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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by hcknwscommenter on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:49AM (#22636071)
If you put in an order for the primers by noon, you can have enough of them in your lab by the morning to run a thousand tests, maybe 10,000.
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