They didn’t say what they were testing for. You can do a binary do you have DNA or not test to see if you are in fact a robot or not. All you need is soap and alcohol.
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phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoYou still have to send it somewhere, at home kits are just about collecting the sample not sequencing it.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Drinking soap makes my stomach upset and drinking alcohol makes me upset, that means I’m a human right?
ebolapie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Any robot I can get drunk with is alright by me
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This thread made me look into the idea of DIYing it, and one of the search results I found looks like legitimately is about actually doing the sequencing yourself:
techcrunch.com/…/citizen-scientists-you-can-now-d…
$800 in 2016 was steep enough, but at the $1600 it apparently costs today I’m not sure it’s still within the realm of DIY, if it ever really was. I wonder if there are any cheaper competitors?
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That allows visualization of PCRed product, which is a far cry from whole genome sequencing. You can visualize a target at a time with no sequence info. Using it for sequences would be extremely tedious and require a lot of runs.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup, I used to do PCR genotyping. 50 samples running the same setup would take me a whole 12-hour day at my lower end lab.
I can’t imagine having to do 50 different ones with 50 different templates and having to adjust each one. 😅
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
About 25,000 coding sequences and a lot more non-coding.
chonkyninja@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now imagine, the person you responded to, is allowed to vote.