Role of diagnostics in epidemiology, management, surveillance, and control of leptospirosis

JE Sykes, KL Reagan, JE Nally, RL Galloway… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
A One Health approach to the epidemiology, management, surveillance, and control of
leptospirosis relies on accessible and accurate diagnostics that can be applied to humans …

Research progress of CRISPR-based biosensors and bioassays for molecular diagnosis

K Chen, Z Shen, G Wang, W Gu, S Zhao… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
CRISPR/Cas technology originated from the immune mechanism of archaea and bacteria
and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for its success in gene editing …

An engineered CRISPR-Cas12a variant and DNA-RNA hybrid guides enable robust and rapid COVID-19 testing

KH Ooi, MM Liu, JWD Tay, SY Teo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extensive testing is essential to break the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, which causes the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we present a CRISPR-based diagnostic assay that is …

The collateral activity of RfxCas13d can induce lethality in a RfxCas13d knock-in mouse model

Y Li, J Xu, X Guo, Z Li, L Cao, S Liu, Y Guo, G Wang… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The CRISPR-Cas13 system is an RNA-guided RNA-targeting system
and has been widely used in transcriptome engineering with potentially important clinical …

A novel miniature CRISPR-Cas13 system for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics

A Mahas, Q Wang, T Marsic… - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Rapid, point-of-care (POC) diagnostics are essential to mitigate the impacts of current (and
future) epidemics; however, current methods for detecting severe acute respiratory …

A field-deployable method for single and multiplex detection of DNA or RNA from pathogens using Cas12 and Cas13

L Li, C Duan, J Weng, X Qi, C Liu, X Li, J Zhu… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
For some Cas nucleases, trans-cleavage activity triggered by CRISPR/Cas-mediated cis-
cleavage upon target nucleic acid recognition has been explored for diagnostic detection …

Collateral cleavage of 28s rRNA by RfxCas13d causes death of mice

Y Li, J Xu, X Guo, Z Li, L Cao, S Liu, Y Guo, G Wang… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The CRISPR-Cas13 system is an RNA-guided RNA-targeting system, and has been widely
used in transcriptome engineering with potentially important clinical applications. However …

Combating infectious diseases with synthetic biology

A Khan, J Ostaku, E Aras… - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past decades, there have been numerous outbreaks, including parasitic, fungal,
bacterial, and viral infections, worldwide. The rate at which infectious diseases are emerging …

Harnessing CRISPR-Cas to combat COVID-19: From diagnostics to therapeutics

KG Chan, GY Ang, CY Yu, CY Yean - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), remains a global threat with an ever-increasing death toll …

Accuracy of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) to diagnose COVID-19, a meta-analysis

S Wang, J Hu, C Sui, G He, Z Qu, X Chen, Y Wang… - Microbial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To estimate the accuracy of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats (CRISPR) in determining coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Methods As of …