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Amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 with CRISPR-Cas13a and mobile phone microscopy.

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This work reports the development of an amplification-free CRISPR-Cas13a assay for direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 from nasal swab RNA that can be read with a mobile phone microscope and has the potential to enable rapid, low-cost, point-of-care screening for Sars-Cov-2.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2021-01-21 and is currently open access. It has received 501 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Respiratory virus.

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CRISPR-based diagnostics.

TL;DR: A review of the rapidly expanding toolbox for CRISPR-based diagnostics, in particular the various assays, preamplification strategies and readouts, and highlight their main applications in the sensing of a wide range of molecular targets relevant to human health is provided in this article.
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CRISPR technology incorporating amplification strategies: molecular assays for nucleic acids, proteins, and small molecules

TL;DR: Successful integrations of CRISPR technology with nucleic acid amplification techniques result in highly sensitive and rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Its Mutated Variants via CRISPR-Cas13-Based Transcription Amplification.

TL;DR: In this paper, a light-up CRISPR-Cas13 transcription amplification method was used to detect SARS-CoV-2 and its mutated variants, and the proposed RNA virus assays are promising for point-of-care monitoring of SARS and its risking variants.
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019.

TL;DR: Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily, which is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans.
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