I think we all agree on not transforming DIYbio labs into local diagnosis medical labs for contagious diseases. Way too dangerous and irresponsible :/
However, I'm seeing an opportunity for this community to perform "safe" research projects to develop cheap and easily implementable methodologies to detect the presence of the virus. Such as the one proposed by Derek where he uses a small piece of its DNA sequence.
The approach would be the same as for the open insuline project, the research can be done safely, but the implementation has to be done in a controlled environment which cannot obviously be DIY labs. The goal is to obtain scientific and technological commons that can be used and improved by the global community, medical scientists and international health organizations included.
BioCurious, OpenCell and Derek's pioneering efforts in trying to contribute to understanding and fighting Covid-19 need to be continued and this crisis is an important opportunity to mobilize safely our community around it.
Thomas
On 29 Feb 2020 at 08:23 +0100, Jonathan Cline <jncline@gmail.com>, wrote:
This is a terrible idea. No one in a DIY community should be actively going within 50' of someone who wants a covid swab test. This is a highly contagious virus. It is not something you want to do for the LoL's or the rep's. The first medical doctor (and others, probably) who treated patients in China is now dead himself. It is not something you want to do in a community environment, where, once you are infected from the DIY patient solicitations, you also infect others in the ad hoc unprotected community lab, since you may not show outward symptoms for a week or more. Do some critical thinking, eh? This is not the DIY project you are looking for.--
On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 4:20:57 PM UTC-8, Thomas Landrain wrote:Hi there from Paris, France,Great initiative!I'd love to help organize a community of contributors aiming to design a DIY 2019-nCoV diagnosis test. I'm a biologist myself...I also believe we should start organizing our DIYbio community around this very goal and research various ways to provide DIY/cheap 2019-nCoV testing abilities and methodologies that are well documented and that can be reviewed by the international community too.Let me know if you like this idea and if yes, we can start documenting the projects on JOGL and mobilize people around them.--## Jonathan Cline## jcline@ieee.org## Mobile: +1-805-617-0223########################
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