Sherlock Biosciences’ first-ever use of CRISPR in a diagnostic has huge potential for at-home COVID-19 testing and beyond. This article is about one of the honorees of Fast Company’s first Next Big ...

Researchers have used the gene editing technology CRISPR — Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — to create a diagnostic test capable of identifying viral infections, bacterial ...

In a new study, a team of researchers outlines the technology for a CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 that uses a smartphone camera to provide accurate results in under 30 minutes. Imagine swabbing your ...

Editor's note: Many thanks to Megha Satyanarayana and C&EN, the magazine of the American Chemical Society, whose great writing provided the inspiration for this headline. About five years ago, when ...

Mammoth Biosciences has received funding from the National Institue of Health’s RADx programme, to develop a CRISPR-based coronavirus test. It is one of seven companies to receive a proportion of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Synthetic biology author. This article is more than 5 years old. Sherlock Biosciences is partnering with binx health to not only ...

Not only does the new CRISPR-based test offer a promising option for rapid testing, but by using a smartphone and avoiding the need for bulky lab equipment, it has the potential to become portable and ...

Coronavirus tests performed in labs are the gold standard for accuracy, and antigen tests are a fast and inexpensive alternative. But backers of a third type of test, developed by a Nobel Prize winner ...

Tulane University researchers have developed a CRISPR-based test that diagnoses Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) - a life-threatening fungal infection primarily affecting children and ...

A defanged form of CRISPR, which doesn’t slice or nick DNA, but rather alters the epigenome — the layers of chemical coding that sit on top of DNA and control the activity of genes — has aced its ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--December 4, 2020--Imagine swabbing your nostrils, putting the swab in a device, and getting a read-out on your phone in 15 to 30 minutes that tells you if you are infected with the ...