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As a middle ground between DIY and leaving it unknown you could also hire a contract lab to do this with you. As an experiment in this, I found a contract lab,
by tito 5y ago
As a middle ground between DIY and leaving it unknown you could also hire a contract lab to do this with you. As an experiment in this, I found a contract lab, ordered PCR primers, and sent in McDonalds burgers and McFish samples to do species identification. (Result: $300 all in, nothing too exciting, Bovine and iirc Alaskan Cod).
The "human sample" bit might be tricky. Doing this today I would check out https://www.scienceexchange.com/ https://www.scienceexchange.com/
Oh and obviously if you're in the Bay Area go to BioCurious (https://biocurious.org/ https://biocurious.org/) or Counter Culture Labs (https://www.counterculturelabs.org/ https://www.counterculturelabs.org/) for all your DIY bio dreams
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- amelius 5y ago> and sent in McDonalds burgers and McFish samples Doesn't cooking/frying destroy the DNA?
- whoisburbansky 5y agoFrom [1], it seems like cooking doesn't completely destroy DNA, but does make it so you get smaller segments post-PCR. Maybe species identification is okay with small segments? 1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18791146/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18791146/