Re: dad campaigns to stop school drug testing

ColoradoSkiBum wrote:
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> : Yep. If they really want to. PCR used to be high-tech and expensive,
> : now it's so cheap you can do it at home in the kitchen with a few
> : small-scale devices. Same with EP and AR.
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> Because after all we all have high-speed centrifuges in our kitchens to spin
> down the DNA, right Steve?  PCR still requires high-tech and expensive
> equipment.  Not like you can use a kitchen blender to do it.
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> ColoradoSkiBum
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Extracting DNA doesn't require any high speed centrifuge, you can
stand outside with a test-tube on a rope and do it, look it up online,
there are numerous "Extract Your Own DNA!" projects.

Then the PCR incubator and control requires only a cubic foot, the
electrophoresis is a tray with a small high voltage power supply, 
and the autorad is the use of a common medical isotope marker and 
some cheap x-ray film sheet. The known lysing agents are cheap and
available.

Steve