A new CRISPR breakthrough could lead to simpler, cheaper disease diagnosis
Scientists say SHERLOCK, a new CRISPR breakthrough, is a diagnosis tool that could be a game changer for the ability to identify infectious diseases like Zika. And exciting," said William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases and preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was not involved in the new research. This new application would propel CRISPR into the much less controversial realm of point-of-care disease diagnosis. (Monica Akhtar,Joel Achenbach/The Washington Post)The controversial laboratory tool known as CRISPR may have found a whole new world to conquer. The earlier gene-editing tool used a molecule called CRISPR Cas9, but this one uses another enzyme, characterized for the first time only a year ago, and now dubbed Cas13a.
Scientists unveil new CRISPR tool, dubbed SHERLOCK, which could revolutionize how we detect diseases
The scientists demonstrated its abilities by using it to diagnose viral diseases like Zika and bacteria like E. coli. The new tool, known scientifically as Cas13 and dubbed SHERLOCK, is more nimble than its well-known gene editing brother Cas9. A coalition of scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard unveiled a new CRISPR tool today that could be a game changer in the technology we use to diagnose disease. It can detect much smaller molecules, so it could be used to gather information about disease much more quickly and efficiently. It was also able to quickly read "human genetic information, such as risk of heart disease, from a saliva sample," according to a press release.collected by :Sandra Alex
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