The Synthetic Viral RNA Fragments from NIST (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

The Synthetic Viral RNA Fragments from NIST

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The NIST material contains the two RNA fragments shown here. Each of these two fragments is roughly 4,000 letters long. NIST researchers chose to synthesize these particular fragments because they contain the RNA sequences targeted by a large number of diagnostic tests, including those designed by the CDC.

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N. Hanacek/NIST

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