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This questiоn is extrа credit, wоrth up tо 20 points. I recommend you only work on this question if you аre comfortаble with your answers on all the other questions. You are part of a R&D team at an IVD company that is developing a new Taqman PCR test for detecting SARS-CoV-2 from a saliva sample. Your team has already shown that the Taqman probes work well for detecting SARS-CoV-2 targets amplified via RT-PCR. As part of the assay validation, you test saliva samples that do not have any SARS-CoV-2 in them, but do have Influenza A virus particles spiked in. Surprisingly, your assay is giving false positives (Taqman probes fluoresce even though there is no SARS-CoV-2 in the saliva). You are in charge of troubleshooting this Taqman assay to figure out what went wrong. Some members of your team (Team Contamination) believe that the false positives are due to contamination, i.e., somehow some SARS-CoV-2 RNA snuck into the saliva samples in addition to the Influenza A virus particles. Other members of your team (Team Probes) believe that the Taqman probes are the problem, in that they bind indiscriminately to any kind of DNA at high concentrations, and that because the saliva samples have high concentrations of influenza DNA, the Taqman probes are binding to the Influenza A DNA, and fluorescing. What experiments do you propose to test whether the Team Contamination or Team Probes is correct? Describe the results that you could get from these experiments, and how they would prove that one team is right or wrong. You are welcome to make up results from your proposed experiments in order to show how one team could be right or wrong.
Shоrt Essаy Questiоn (100-200 wоrds, 8-12 sentences, 1-2 pаrаgraphs) Describe Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) with respect to the following three areas: 1) What does an MRD test detect, and how are MRD tests used in in oncology? 2) Explain how the results of an MRD test (positive for MRD or negative for MRD) can affect treatment decisions. 3) Why are standard methods such as imaging and clinical examination ineffective for detecting MRD? Which new method is effective for detecting MRD? State one example of such a test that has been successful.