#QPCR

michaelmina_lab

Still so much confusion about rapid antigen tests. They get compared to qPCR and bc qPCR is deemed the gold standard, they appear as “low sensitivity”To be clear, the problem

michaelmina_lab

THREAD: Maybe you’ve heard about Ct values in the qPCR test and viral loads. So what’s a Ct value, why is higher Ct a lower viral load, what’s it have

@MattHancock : Hey Neil you've been quite critical of my Covid testing strategy so far. OK you scouse smartarse what would you do that's better?@NotWIMM : Hi Matt, well first

We’ve been working hard @BillionToOne on a new COVID-19 test that scales testing to everyone in the US https://www.billiontoone.com/covid-19 .It (1) re-purposes existing infrastructure, (2) eliminates time-consuming RNA extraction, and (3)

Carl T. Bergstrom

When I was a kid I dreamed of someday appearing in the pages of @SInow Sports Illustrated. It took longer than I hoped, and I'm not there for the reasons

This article and take are absolutely horrible. It’s understood that infection doesn’t always equal contagiousness. The experts in the field are trying to say we need to figure out a

Josh #MassTestingNowPH #NEVERAGAIN

Unpopular opinion: this expert is SHORTSIGHTED. Yes, it’s difficult. But god damn we owe it to the Filipino people to do everything we can to INCREASE OUR CAPACITY #MassTestingNowPH https://twitter.com/edselsalvana/status/1253102261510615040

Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

𝟏 A on: Reverse Transcription-quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR) currently used to detect #SARSCoV2 Cycle Threshold (CT) & what it means#scicomm #COVID19 𝟐 RT-qPCR is a common lab technique

Henry S. Gibbons, Ph.D.

Our preprint describing the BarCoder algorithm to generate synthetic PCR signatures is up on @BioArxiv! Thanks to the project team at @CCDC_ChemBio for their hard work and to @doddtra for

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"I am not a biologist, but have been discussing this article with a university student who is studying the field. He is questioning whether a PCR test can distinguish two

Kevin McKernan 🙂

The Live-Dead qRT-PCR problem, the testing industrial complex and its impact on society.I never thought the work I did for the human genome project would be weaponized to lock down

If you’re following the news on COVID-19 testing, you may have heard the debate about RT-PCR testing and Ct values leading to false positive results. You may be wondering “How

(1/n) @mckelmer, Environment Report: Science Is Rising to the Occasion (Surfers, Less So)https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/science-environment/environment-report-science-is-rising-to-the-occasion-surfers-less-so/This story motivated me to spend

Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir MPH&PhD

Iceland enjoys the privilege of being a small nation on an island with excellent access to #COVID19 screening and sequencing. This has enabled Iceland to tell stories of this pandemic

Dr Peter Ikhianosimhe Imoesi

Presidential Task Force to state government. Going forward the fight against COVID19 will rest more on states - @DrSaniAliyu.My recommendation to state government going forward. @GovernorObaseki, @kfayemi @seyiamakinde @IAOkowa @elrufai

Kevin McKernan 🙂

A few people have asked me if the current SARs-CoV-2 primers hit SARs 2003?This is a tutorial on how to BLAST these yourself to address such questions. There are many