The mutation that helps Delta spread

Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by mellavora on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:54PM (#28249937)

genetic sequencing is pretty cheap these days.

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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by walterbell on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:00PM (#28250019)

Is it to the price level (e.g. under $1K) where an individual patient could pay a lab to sequence their own virus sample?

How about the cost of sequencing one drop of the vaccine vial they received, as a quality control sample of the distribution supply chain?

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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by bhickey on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:59PM (#28250710)

> Is it to the price level (e.g. under $1K) where an individual patient could pay a lab to sequence their own virus sample?

Sure. It'll run under $50 in bulk. Less, but not that much less, if you're only interested in sequencing the spike.

> How about the cost of sequencing one drop of the vaccine vial they received, as a quality control sample of the distribution supply chain?

This isn't a useful quality check. A negative result implicates your field assay rather than manufacturing.

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Re:The mutation that helps Delta spread by walterbell on Friday August 20, 2021 @04:03PM (#28250768)

Thanks for the pricing.

> This isn't a useful quality check. A negative result implicates your field assay rather than manufacturing.

What if there were multiple samples of the same lot number, collected in different geographical regions at different times?

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