What I'd really like to have is the antibody test, to see if I've already been infected. All the state is covering is testing for current infections. I suspect it's probably polymerase-chain testing, since they say it will take a few days to yield results. I don't know if you've ever done the reaction, but it's pretty cool. Years ago, I had a favourite chemistry professor who was working on developing a bacterium that would scavenge and fix arsenic from landfills and dump sites. I helped her out a few times by doing a PCR reaction on candidate bacteria when she was spread too thin. The point was to get a lot of DNA, so as to be able to analyse it easily. I'd burst the bacteria with a sonic disrupter, then start growing DNA, then wind it up on a wooden stick. In large amounts, it resembles nothing so much as snot.
Afterthought: And, whilst setting the time delay on the sonic disrupter (You can't be in the room whileit's activated. It's that loud), I could not help but channel the deranged mouse from "The Rescuers Down Under" - "Activate the epidermal tissue disrupter!"
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Date: 2020-09-04 03:04 am (UTC)Afterthought: And, whilst setting the time delay on the sonic disrupter (You can't be in the room whileit's activated. It's that loud), I could not help but channel the deranged mouse from "The Rescuers Down Under" - "Activate the epidermal tissue disrupter!"