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Yes. You can buy a PCR machine for about $1,000 US. You can build your own agarose gel box for about $100. THe power supply might be tricky, but probably not.
by hcknwscommenter 7y ago
Yes. You can buy a PCR machine for about $1,000 US. You can build your own agarose gel box for about $100. THe power supply might be tricky, but probably not. The CDC has published all of the primer and probe sequences. It is trivial to run the assay yourself if you buy the PCR machine and a few water baths for the RT and DNAse reactions.
- juuul 7y agoIf you aren't worried about safety then you can use e.g. a full bridge rectifier hooked up to 110 V AC to get a usable (but shitty) agarose gel power supply. I really don't recommend this but it does show how easy it can be.