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Kevin McKernan on how COVID tests work, retracted papers, and the faith of science
Kevin McKernan talks with Vance Crowe about COVID tests, how PCR works and about lockdown measures taken in response to papers that have since been recalled.
Kevin McKernan was the President and Chief Science Officer of Agencourt Personal Genomics, a startup company he co-founded in 2005 to invent revolutionary sequencing technologies that dropped the cost of sequencing a human genome from $300M to $3,000; a 100,000-fold improvement in sequencing speed and cost in a few years.
Kevin also managed the R&D for the Human Genome Project at Whitehead Institute/MIT resulting in several patents for…
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