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Thanks; that is a good question. In our laboratory, we have a ratio of 10:1 for PCR to qPCR instruments. In the new laboratory that we are constructing, the ratio is 50:1. It was s…

$15 is half the price of even the bare minimum qPCR kits (e.g., TaqPath). We need to buy the reagents from NEB, IDT, and others and work with a contract manufacturer to mix it into…

Thanks for the question. Last week, I sent half-a-page of instructions in a hastily written e-mail to a scientist working for the Switzerland government response team, and they tol…

I think we can scale it to significantly more than 1M a day, but it would require the relaxation of certain regulations that currently prevent collaboration between clinical labora…

Roche 6600/8800 instruments are state-of-the-art automated RT-qPCR machines. We need them as well as other COVID-19 testing instruments. That said, it is easier to ship the test ki…

We have the data both with extraction and without and show that it does not make a difference with qSanger. In Figure 4, we add VTM directly to PCR reactions. Seracare VTM samples …

Both the methods and David's twitter clearly describe the linear regression as the method and how it works with spike-in. In practice, it is a lot more complicated, as the signal-t…

If it is specific to COVID-19 testing, we will not seek anything, as long as the end-user is not financially benefiting from it or importantly, selling qSanger kits. If they need o…

I don't think we are in any way undervaluing the serological tests. A great serological test would be very useful. However, because of the indirect measurement, they tend not to be…

CEO of BillionToOne here. We have already generated and put into our scientific manuscript the data that FDA requires for EUA. As a high-complexity CLIA-licensed clinical laborator…