Researchers are racing to develop quick, home-based tests for the virus that could deliver test results in minutes. None do that yet, but several... CRISPR And Spit Might Be Keys To Faster, Cheaper, ...
An MIT spin-off company called Sherlock Biosciences has gotten FDA approval to begin using its CRISPR-based COVID-19 test, which promises to be faster and easy to perform without access to a full lab.
In a recent study posted to the Research Square* preprint server, researchers used isothermal amplification with clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas12a to detect ...