CRISPR is certainly taking the scientific community by storm, rightfully so as this genome-editing technique has proven time and time again to be very versatile. This time, CRISPR has been found to be a very effective tool to accurately identify HPV, Zika, or dengue infections from human samples. A researcher Jennifer Doudna, states that a new DETECTR system can achieve the feat of distinguishing even differing HPV strains without the need to isolate them. The accuracy in which DETECTR could detect HPV-16 and HPV-18 in human samples were 100% and 92% respectively. The cost of a DETECTR test is around one dollar and the time for the test is approximately one hour. Wow. Additionally, improvements were made to the existing SHERLOCK system, a more versatile system that can detect Zika and dengue.
As a professor from Mitchell O’Connor simply put it “It enables a new generation of diagnostics that may be more cost-effective than current technologies” I wonder what CRISPR will be up to next?
-Daniel Gutierrez
Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17012866/crispr-detectr-sherlock-zika-dengue-hpv-diagnostic-tools
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