PCR cannot diagnose anything regardless of the cycles used. It is lab equipment used to identify particles in a sample, it will never tell you if you are sick or not.
What's weird is I caught a random episode of House and they were using PCR tests for diagnostic purposes. Thought it was a weird thing to come across when my research at the time was saying the opposite but I just chalked it up to bad writing.
PCR cannot diagnose anything regardless of the cycles used. It is lab equipment used to identify particles in a sample, it will never tell you if you are sick or not.
Using it as a diagnostic tool is total fraud.
What's weird is I caught a random episode of House and they were using PCR tests for diagnostic purposes. Thought it was a weird thing to come across when my research at the time was saying the opposite but I just chalked it up to bad writing.
TV science is all fiction. The writers make up almost everything. Scotty, pull those dilithium crystals out of your ass and get this ship moving.