Dr. Kenny Beckman with the University of Minnesota Genomics center says wastewater sampling is a good way to collect viral data from the entire population
If knowledge is power, knowing the intimate secrets of a person’s DNA could be a powerful weapon. That might explain why world leaders who hastened to Moscow in the past few days for diplomatic talks seemed to balk at Russian-administered COVID-19 tests.
This might be a case where imagination is getting a bit ahead of what science is actually capable of.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused to let Russia conduct a polymerase chain reaction (PCR), while French officials said that President Emmanuel Macron balked at some of the requirements to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, leading to speculation that he did not