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The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19

Medicine and the Machine

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RTPCR, Real Time PCR, RTQPCR

When UC Davis was shut down in 2020, the university set up a real time PCR testing center. This involved buying lots of machines and making the largest orders I've ever done for primers. It sounded like a challenge because there's only minute amounts of nucleic acids in a patient sample. So we were ordering primers and machines to detect.

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