Virus Surveillance and Diagnosis With a CRISPR-Based Platform

A newly developed technology draws on the latest genome editing advances to detect viruses at scale —including the one that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)—for surveillance and diagnostic purposes. The innovation, recently described in Nature, uses clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR–associated protein 13 (Cas13), gene editing tools based on a bacterial defense system against invading viruses.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research