The Wisdom of Whores » PCR http://www.wisdomofwhores.com Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:15:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Getting your Dx in a twist http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/02/04/getting-your-dx-in-a-twist/ http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/02/04/getting-your-dx-in-a-twist/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:39:43 +0000 elizabeth http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/?p=2093 Remember the fabulous singing Nobel prize winner? Now PCR ads are getting sexy again. Though I do have to wonder how may pints the founders of TwistDx had had when they registered their company name. Try saying it out loud even before a pint…

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Thanks to Seif, who has yet to take me shoe shopping…

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Those tests are strictly for lab nerds. More recently, though, supermarkets have started stocking do it yourself paternity tests. It wasn’t ever going to be long before enthusiastic you-tubers had a go at that:

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