Following San Francisco declaring a public health emergency for monkeypox, we're showing you inside a lab that's testing for this virus.
Berkeley-based Renegade Bio's science lab in Berkeley can test for both monkeypox strains in a 4-hour window.Following San Francisco declaring a public health emergency for monkeypox, ABC7 News took a look inside a lab that's testing for the virus.to see firsthand how scientists are expanding their COVID-19 testing efforts to monkeypox testing."Once the sample arrives, we de-cap, we process.
Each sample goes through multiple machines to decipher two things: who has monkeypox and what's the origin of the virus -- if it's the West Africa or Congo Basin strain. "It's a thermocycler. It amplifies the genetic information of the virus by fluctuating between hot and cool temperatures. At the end of 40 cycles of temperature fluctuation, the results are viewable onscreen as S curves if the virus is present," Rouskey said.
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