Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
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...and called for the fast-tracked development of diagnostics. Mostly transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes (aegypti...regions of South, Central, and North America. Diagnostics will play an important role in helping to monitor...fellows with Jim Collins and Peng Yin at the Wyss Institute (Harvard University), we developed two new enabling...Pardee et al, 2014). As a demonstration of the diagnostic potential of these combined technologies, we ...of antibiotic resistance and strain-specific diagnostics for the Ebola virus. Our original proof-of-concept... the critical need for low-cost, field-based diagnostics, our approach could make an impact. Our motivation...paper-based platform into clinically relevant diagnostics for the Zika virus was daunting. It took a true...