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An engineered CRISPR-Cas12a variant and DNA-RNA hybrid guides enable robust and rapid COVID-19 testing.
Nature communications - 19 Mar 2021
Ooi Kean Hean, Liu Mengying Mandy, Tay Jie Wen Douglas, Teo Seok Yee, Kaewsapsak Pornchai, Jin Shengyang, Lee Chun Kiat, Hou Jingwen, Maurer-Stroh Sebastian, Lin Weisi, Yan Benedict, Yan Gabriel, Gao Yong-Gui, Tan Meng How
Abstract excerpt
Extensive testing is essential to break the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, which causes the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we present a CRISPR-based diagnostic assay that is robust to viral genome mutations and temperature, produces results fast, can be applied directly on nasopharyngeal (NP) specimens without RNA purification, and incorporates a human internal control within the same reaction. Specifically, we...
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