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We need some way to detect germs in realtime, without knowing in advance what they are, so people can evacuate buildings that have them.

There's gotta be some miniature electron microscope that can look at viruses in the air or something, right?



It may be possible to detect Covid-19 with Nanopore's Minion?

Rapid and Accurate Detection of SARS Coronavirus 2 by Nanopore Amplicon Sequencing. Xiao-Xiao Li and al.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35464969/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanopore_sequencing


Electron microscopes can only see atoms with lots of electrons (high atomic number). So to observe a biological specimen with one, you need to coat the sample with heavy metals first




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