Share Your Thoughts and Experiences related to Coronavirus
Updated: Jun 2, 2020
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Mike Jaqua
Jun 11, 2020
Well, well. I learned some new things today. Exciting!
1- LAMP is altogether new to me. It took me a good while to read up and figure it out (well mostly figure out out). It's a damn clever technology.
Development of methods and technology have been going faster and faster over the last ~6 decades. Nowadays it seems like you just stop to tie your shoes and then look up to find a new lab method has been developed.
LAMP is certainly quicker and simpler than PCR. LAMP would certainly be a better POC (point of care) choice to detect virus. It couldn't detect antibodies though since it works on RNA/DNA, not proteins.
2- The OraSure platform technology is also…
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druw
Jun 11, 2020
Bonjour Sr. Mike,
Mucho thanks for the last great info -- so much to understand, so little time (and why we should work on time machines, too. :) ).
This may be the perfect time to draw an odd analogy for CoVid -- as everything is obviously different now because of the Watts riots in 1964?, and Rodney King in 92? and Ferguson in 2016? -- but there's still rioting in the streets. It's always different -- and seemingly always the same, but it does or will get better eventually, marginally incrementally, relative to racism revealed by "toxic cop culture" -- and our nemesis here -- CoVid too, likely due to some of the stuff we're learning of and talkin…
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Mike Jaqua
Jun 09, 2020
Dru
Where do I find that other group discussing COVID-19?
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Mike Jaqua
Jun 09, 2020
Yeah lab work is like riding a bike. So is reading research papers. It's those days when my brain gets into a fog that I have real trouble.
General human intelligence has been compared to sheep. Food runs out, wait for someone to lead you to new pastures. Need water, go stand in a river until your ever wetter wool pulls you under. Predator comes, make a lot of noise and run every direction. We always need a shepherd. ... You probably couldn't tell at all, but I'm kinda down on the human race. 😯
The idea of a very small PCR device is intriguing. I can sort of envision how it might be done. It'd take a lot of…
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druw
Jun 08, 2020
Mucho thanks, Mike, for some very useful info in your last post and I wouldn't worry that much about long times since lab work. I hear that lab work is just like riding a bike -- and why you always see so many lab workers always on bikes. I have no lab experience -- and not that good on bikes either.
It always gets me in trouble when I mention it, but I ALWAYS see humans as operating well (well!) below the horizon of productivity optimization. We (humans, mostly) just never ever do as much as we COULD ever until we cause a catastrophe -- and then suddenly -- we do -- always after a lousy start and things chang…
Well, well. I learned some new things today. Exciting!
1- LAMP is altogether new to me. It took me a good while to read up and figure it out (well mostly figure out out). It's a damn clever technology.
Development of methods and technology have been going faster and faster over the last ~6 decades. Nowadays it seems like you just stop to tie your shoes and then look up to find a new lab method has been developed.
LAMP is certainly quicker and simpler than PCR. LAMP would certainly be a better POC (point of care) choice to detect virus. It couldn't detect antibodies though since it works on RNA/DNA, not proteins.
2- The OraSure platform technology is also…
Bonjour Sr. Mike,
Mucho thanks for the last great info -- so much to understand, so little time (and why we should work on time machines, too. :) ).
This may be the perfect time to draw an odd analogy for CoVid -- as everything is obviously different now because of the Watts riots in 1964?, and Rodney King in 92? and Ferguson in 2016? -- but there's still rioting in the streets. It's always different -- and seemingly always the same, but it does or will get better eventually, marginally incrementally, relative to racism revealed by "toxic cop culture" -- and our nemesis here -- CoVid too, likely due to some of the stuff we're learning of and talkin…
Dru
Where do I find that other group discussing COVID-19?
Yeah lab work is like riding a bike. So is reading research papers. It's those days when my brain gets into a fog that I have real trouble.
General human intelligence has been compared to sheep. Food runs out, wait for someone to lead you to new pastures. Need water, go stand in a river until your ever wetter wool pulls you under. Predator comes, make a lot of noise and run every direction. We always need a shepherd. ... You probably couldn't tell at all, but I'm kinda down on the human race. 😯
The idea of a very small PCR device is intriguing. I can sort of envision how it might be done. It'd take a lot of…
Mucho thanks, Mike, for some very useful info in your last post and I wouldn't worry that much about long times since lab work. I hear that lab work is just like riding a bike -- and why you always see so many lab workers always on bikes. I have no lab experience -- and not that good on bikes either.
It always gets me in trouble when I mention it, but I ALWAYS see humans as operating well (well!) below the horizon of productivity optimization. We (humans, mostly) just never ever do as much as we COULD ever until we cause a catastrophe -- and then suddenly -- we do -- always after a lousy start and things chang…