our work describing the adaptation of the cdc rt-qpcr assay for use with alternative qiagen rna extraction kits , as well as skipping the rna extraction step entirely is live on biorxiv .
our work describing the adaptation of the cdc rt-qpcr assay for use with alternative qiagen rna extraction kits , as well as skipping the rna extraction step entirely is live on biorxiv .
to address this issue, we tested the unconventional approach of skipping the rna extraction step altogether and directly loading patient swab material into the rt-qpcr mix.", "we hypothesized that sars- cov-2 rna could be detected from np samples via a direct rt-qpcr assay that omits the rna extraction step altogether, and tested this hypothesis on a series of blinded clinical samples.")