New CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 uses a smartphone camera
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The technique was designed in collaboration with UC Berkeley bioengineer Daniel Fletcher, Ph.D., as well as Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., who is a senior investigator at Gladstone, a professor at UC Berkeley, president of the Innovative Genomics Institute, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Doudna recently won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-discovering CRISPR-Cas genome editing, the technology that underlies this work.
Not only can their new diagnostic test generate a positive or negative result, it also measures the viral load (or the concentration of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19) in a given sample.
"When coupled with repeated testing, measuring viral load could help determine whether an infection is increasing or decreasing," says Fletcher, who is also a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. "Monitoring the course of a patient's infection could help health care professionals estimate the stage of infection and predict, in real time, how long is likely needed for recovery." (Read More)
New CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 uses a smartphone camera
New CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 uses a smartphone camera
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