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Maybe for someone with no bio background. But these are pretty standard techniques in molecular biology. The only tricky part is collecting the sample without e
by Metacelsus 7y ago
Maybe for someone with no bio background. But these are pretty standard techniques in molecular biology. The only tricky part is collecting the sample without exposing yourself to the virus.
- eitally 7y agoThese are techniques high school students learn and practice in AP Bio... at least I did, 25 years ago.
- mrosett 7y agoReally? PCR was pretty new at that point.
- whymauri 7y agoReading through some archived curricula, it was in a 1993 practice exam, at least. [0] I'm pretty surprised as well. [0] http://www.csun.edu/science/biology/AP_biology/text%20files/genetics.txt http://www.csun.edu/science/biology/AP_biology/text%20files/...
- omar_a1 7y agoYes, and middle school students learn to write "Hello World!" HTML pages. So, by that logic, any web developer is interchangeable with a middle schooler.
- whymauri 7y agoYeah, the Dropbox example doesn't make sense. Dropbox is hard to build because it needs to work at scale and for general enterprise purposes. Similarly, regional/state-sponsored testing is hard because it needs to work at scale and for a large population of people. Running these kits out of your garage is like running a tweaked, existing file system for a home network. Not completely trivial, but it's not Dropbox, guys.
- omar_a1 7y ago> Dropbox is hard to build because it needs to work at scale And you don't think this test needs to scale, with the millions of people needing to be tested?