This would allow any chem eng / bio production facility in the world to turn themselves into home test manufacturing factories. When a new strain emerges tomorrow or in 2 months, all the herd immunity will be for naught. We need to stop that spreading and stop the initial strain spreading.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/diybio/714Hk2Ekdo0 or tl; dr:

* know someone high level in Qiagen, Roche, Thermofisher and can coerce them to open source their RNA extraction kits? Please contact them. * analytical chemist with a mass spec ready to reverse engineer?

Please let me know. Thanks!

AJP

p.s. first HN post, be gentle! ;)