The machines and reagents are super common. The critical missing element is the primer, a short sequence of nucleotides telling the PCR (gene copier) what sequence to copy
Gene synthesis companies are probably ramping production of these primers now. It’s a logistics issue to send them to the labs, but tiny quantities are needed so the packages are gonna be small, with cold chain shipping I think.
We (molecular biologists) have a dearth of tools for affordable label-free testing, so you basically have to know what you’re looking for before you can look. Bad problem to have. this could be improved with sequencers from Illumina / Roche / Oxford Nanopore but need $$ for that
Gene synthesis companies are probably ramping production of these primers now. It’s a logistics issue to send them to the labs, but tiny quantities are needed so the packages are gonna be small, with cold chain shipping I think.
We (molecular biologists) have a dearth of tools for affordable label-free testing, so you basically have to know what you’re looking for before you can look. Bad problem to have. this could be improved with sequencers from Illumina / Roche / Oxford Nanopore but need $$ for that