COVID-19 Testing Solutions for Businesses and Individuals—Jo Bhakdi—Quantgene
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Returning guest and founder of Quantgene, Jo Bhakdi, discusses his work at Quantgene in the COVID-19 testing arena.
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- What the difference is between specificity and sensitivity, and why a consideration of both is critical for COVID-19 testing
- What the difference is between antigen, antibody, and PCR-based COVID-19 test procedures, and why Bhakdi believes it is so important to develop real-time rapid PCR-based testing for COVID-19
- How the specific virus causing COVID-19 is able to be isolated and identified through PCR-based testing
Quantgene's genomic and liquid biopsy technologies have played a significant role in advancing the speed and accuracy of cancer identification. Now, they're focusing their efforts on COVID-19 testing methods. "We are all about real-time medical intelligence," says Bhakdi, as he explains that medicine is mostly a data problem, with the COVID-19 situation being no exception. According to Bhakdi, the COVID-19 testing crisis is not a molecular diagnostic problem, but a time problem: it's simply taking far too long for people to get their results.
Bhakdi explains what PCR testing is and how it works. This includes an explanation of how the amount of genomic material doubles with each amplification cycle in the PCR procedure, in what way the test involves DNA sequencing, and the role of the protein polymerase in synthesizing strands of DNA.
He also explains what Quantgene's COVID-19 test provides that others don't, and the enormous demand for a reliable test that delivers fast results.
Visit https://www.quantgene.com/ to learn more.
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| 0:41.0 | A returning guest that's becoming one of my favorites. |
| 0:44.6 | His name is Joe Bacti. |
| 0:46.1 | He's the head of a company called Quant Gene. |
| 0:48.6 | QU-A-N-T gene. |
| 0:51.0 | We talked about cancer and the new therapies they're working on to help with |
| 0:55.1 | liquid biopsies to identify cancer faster and better and more completely. |
| 0:59.4 | They're also in the COVID testing arena and this is important because again, |
| 1:06.5 | Quan Jean and Joe they seem to have I don't know if they approach problems in a |
| 1:10.5 | really unique way that they get to resolved I think in a better way. |
| 1:14.1 | So I want to talk to them about COVID testing. So Joe, welcome back. Thanks, how you |
| 1:18.4 | doing? Hi Richard, I'm great. Thanks a lot for having me on. Well, good. |
| 1:23.0 | So why, it seems like, you know, a lot of companies and initiatives are researching COVID, |
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