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Starting a thread for new #SARSCoV2 ideas that we have been brainstorming amongst friends. Calling for inputs, suggestions and help getting someone to try developing in the lab if it makes sense.
First one now is a yeast/bacteria based diagnostic test
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First one now is a yeast/bacteria based diagnostic test
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One main constraint in current RTPCR/serology tests is supply of physical materials (RNA extraction reagents etc) and trained personnel. Need POC quick tests. What about a microbe that gives a colorimetric readout? Interested? Read on..
The virus uses both ACE2 (receptor) and TMPRSS2 (protease) to enter human cells. Presumably, and this I dont know for sure, the virus is bound to both simultaneously (atleast for some fraction of time). Critical to the idea 
