What is the principle of automatic nucleic acid detector? Will it replace manual labor? I feel the future is possible. This idea is very good ah, watching the news there is a medical old-timer said, if in the case of people and viruses long-term **** existence, can we develop a personal nucleic acid testing method, similar to test strips and things like that, so that you can dramatically improve the efficiency of the test, but also to reduce the risk of infection in the centralized testing. Such a method I think would be better and less costly than automated nucleic acid testing, but it's up to the medical community to develop it. If automated technology is utilized to detect nucleic acids, which is an integration of existing technology, it should not be a big problem to achieve, just that the cost will be higher. First of all, the first step of this piece I think or with a throat swab on the line, they poke two into the machine corresponding position on the line;
Then for the automated extraction of nucleic acids, the market should now have this equipment, at least a few tens of thousands of dollars; and then according to the high school biology knowledge, nucleic acid detection should be to carry out the reverse transcription of the RNA to DNA, the medical piece of I do not know much about it, but the piece of technology and equipment The cost is certainly not low, plus the materials for testing, and the test results of the automatic analysis system, and finally the identity system of this piece of another, the cost of light testing is certainly not low, the country invested in mass production, unless the cost is completely disregarded. In addition, if the production out, the machine must also be sterilized, security, manpower still have to spend some. However, if it is really made, it can really speed up the efficiency of detection.
One of the most difficult aspects of nucleic acid testing is sampling, which can only be collected by a doctor at present, and if sampling by a robotic arm is more difficult, it requires an expensive robotic arm and a complex control system. Not conducive to large-scale use. So the core key to automatic testing is to find a method that can eliminate the need for manual and simple sampling without affecting the accuracy of the test. It seems to me that this method is at least there, I will do a throwback first, if really commercialized there must be a better way.
Sampling is done by the user themselves, following instructions on the machine's screen, while the machine recognizes and guides the person's movements in real time. Since the new crown can be airborne, could a method be invented to use disposable masks for collecting exhaled gases and then testing them. Similar to the method used for DUI checks. Automated antigen detection machine, to provide the user with antigen test paper, and then the machine to determine the results of the antigen test, the advantage of this is to be able to reduce costs, and do not have to rely entirely on the user's self-consciousness.