buried the lede, imho: we have enough DNA profiles to match their sampling up with.
I'm always stunned when reminded that a full genome sequencing has gone from Human Genome Project's extreme cost and (edit: glacial) speed to using seqencing as the easy button.
I hear we've also got machines that'll seqence, fit on a bench, and cost high five/low six figures. They've got issues to work out still though- iirc something about damaged sections causing issues.
there’s youtubers that have videos about doing this in a home wetlab. very achievable. some amateur soil biologists using this to try and sample microdiversity as the planet… humanifies.
dubi_steinkek 16 hours ago [-]
Do you have links to these youtubers? Sounds interesting
dhruv3006 43 minutes ago [-]
Why is nature suddenly click bait - changing times I guess.
shevy-java 53 minutes ago [-]
Don't anyone tell Palantir about this ...
tim333 2 days ago [-]
Cool.
I think they had to delete all the sequencing data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology so stuff in the air wouldn't show up.
shevy-java 52 minutes ago [-]
That was never a convincing argument, IMO. Just as US institutes would claim that China is responsible, by the same token the argument works on any other lab too - yet the media did not present in that way. Ever. That's not accurate reporting; that's an attempt at victim blaming. Next thing someone may do is give a powerpoint presentation about weapons of mass destruction in some far-away country ...
popopo73 35 minutes ago [-]
>Just as US institutes would claim that China is responsible, by the same token the argument works on any other lab too - yet the media did not present in that way. Ever. That's not accurate reporting; that's an attempt at victim blaming.
So your idea of accurate reporting is to apply whataboutisms?
cmos 2 days ago [-]
As is the Ocean.
baxtr 41 minutes ago [-]
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I'm always stunned when reminded that a full genome sequencing has gone from Human Genome Project's extreme cost and (edit: glacial) speed to using seqencing as the easy button.
I hear we've also got machines that'll seqence, fit on a bench, and cost high five/low six figures. They've got issues to work out still though- iirc something about damaged sections causing issues.
there’s youtubers that have videos about doing this in a home wetlab. very achievable. some amateur soil biologists using this to try and sample microdiversity as the planet… humanifies.
I think they had to delete all the sequencing data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology so stuff in the air wouldn't show up.