Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? by a_bonobo on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:58AM (#23282543)

The Oxford Nanopore people announced that they are in the 'advanced stages' of developing their own Covid-19 test called LamPORE

https://twitter.com/nanopore/status/1263711292868694021

Press release: https://nanoporetech.com/about-us/news/oxford-nanopore-techn...

'Oxford Nanopore is planning to deploy LamPORE for COVID-19 in a regulated setting initially on GridION and soon after on the portable MinION Mk1C.'

The GridION is still expensive and not affordable for a business or private person, a MinION definitely is.

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Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? by koeng on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:16PM (#23284647)

Thanks for those links! I knew it was only a matter of time

There are lots of folks working on LAMP in the DIYbio community. The kinda cool thing is that you can just have a colormetric read-out, so you don't even need Nanopore sequencing. I'm guessing that the reason Nanopore is nice there is to eliminate false positives. I'm more a fan of this approach -

https://www.genomeweb.com/business-news/clear-labs-raises-18...

Because you can recover full genomes as a by-product of diagnostic tests (which is useful for tracing infection, for example https://nextstrain.org/)

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