Fig. 2: Gel extraction of SARS-CoV-2 fragments, full-length cDNA and full-length viral RNA.

a, Agarose gel showing each SARS-CoV-2 DNA fragment (1µL of each) isolated post–restriction enzyme digestion and utilized for in vitro ligation. b,c, Representative gels from successful (b) and unsuccessful (c) attempts to generate full-length SARS-CoV-2 cDNA. d,e, Representative agarose gels from successful (d) and unsuccessful (e) attempts to generate in vitro transcribed full-length SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA prior to electroporation and virus recovery.