alina have you ever done an RNA extraction in your life. please tell me how you species-selectively remove DNA from a sample.
i'm at the stage where i can't tell if you're an idiot or deliberately lying; both are consistent w/the quality of your scientific output & i'm genuinely not sure which is worse.
@wanderer_jasnah I would pay a lot for this enrichment kit lol
@wanderer_jasnah Whole genome/exome kits exist where you pull down human nucleic acids. There's no reason why one could not specifically remove human nucleic acids using such an enrichment kit. But I agree, without know what kit was used, it will be challenging to tell if it was species specific.
@wanderer_jasnah Lmao it’s called RiboZero
@wanderer_jasnah That is oddly written to be honest. Usually it just says DNASE treatment or something along those lines. Also depends on the method used to extract RNA.
@wanderer_jasnah they do do that for ancient DNA work using hybridization so in principle could be what they did seems a wee bit unlikely but who the hell knows based off that impressionistic methods section
@wanderer_jasnah Wait is she seriously mistaking this for the RNA extraction kit using binding beads, etc.? If that’s the case, everyone who does PCR extraction (including me) “enriches” RNA detection! Incredible!