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Vittorio Saggiomo

@V_Saggiomo

18 Nov

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Spoiler for tomorrow…..
@Sander_Says is an angle grinder magician :D

https://twitter.com/Sander_Says/status/1461287417680379911

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@Sander_Says performing the last cut (hopefully)

It was a hard job….

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Vittorio Saggiomo

@V_Saggiomo

17 Apr

I should be writing, but ......
As those are now available in supermarkets, shall we take a look?

So, it’s a swab, apparently not a deep swab though. Polyoxymethylene and a sponge, sterile and approved for medical use

Then we have the buffer, not sure what’s in here. It’s an antigen test so there shouldn’t be any lysis required, but maybe a deactivation step?

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Vittorio Saggiomo

@V_Saggiomo

23 Mar

Finally is out, our super cheap, easy to produce in millions, almost universal, and with low waste impact nucleic acid detection (LAMP test for #COVID19) non-instrumental device. The answer is: a Nespresso capsule. The question is: why we did this? 1/n
chemrxiv.org/articles/prepr…

In a pandemic of such dimension, the centralised testing is a problem. A decentralised testing solution would simplify the detection and containment of the virus. Testing millions of people per day is unfeasible in centralised testing, while doable using tests at home 2/n

For home testing you need a test which is simple to use and incredible sturdy. LAMP is perfect (better than PCR) and many groups are working on saliva rather than swab for simplifying the process. No one was working on the device to run the LAMP and that's where we started. 3/n

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Vittorio Saggiomo

@V_Saggiomo

22 Mar

Ok then :)
(Actually not sure when I’ll have time to set it up -_-)

Ha, Who I was kidding???
Too excited not to build today :D

Ok, it’s fast, but it’s super loud. Annoyingly loud

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Vittorio Saggiomo

@V_Saggiomo

7 Mar

Usually I don't interact with trolls and I let slide a lot of things on twitter because policing is not something I like to do (nor I believe it's the proper action). But when your opinion is full of hate, racism, and prejudice against the south of Italy, then I've a problem.

and that's because it's a prejudice which was driven since the "unity" of Italy. And now it's somehow normalised to chant "Vesuvio, wash them with fire" during a football match

Before the unity of italy, we were (very) rich, had the first railway, second naval force for commerce in Europe, first military academy, and so on and so on. After the unity we suddenly become lazy, dirty, unwilling to work and so on....

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