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This South Korean manufacturer seems to able to do 94 tests at a time in four hours with their machine. Which might be a nicer batch number for testing closer t
by dv_dt 7y ago
This South Korean manufacturer seems to able to do 94 tests at a time in four hours with their machine. Which might be a nicer batch number for testing closer to the point of care.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-testing-intl-hnk/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-...
- gniv 7y agoI think this is similar to what everybody else is doing -- using a thermocycler to run PCR. It can run 96 samples in parallel and takes 3-4 hours to run through 30-40 cycles. But there are a lot of manual steps, and I'm not sure how much the SK company automates them.
- ksk 7y ago>I think this is similar to what everybody else is doing -- using a thermocycler to run PCR What method do you propose without a thermocycler?
- dv_dt 7y agoThe article talks about a robot arm pipetting and implies the machine finishes the test, but I don't know what other steps there might be.