Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
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Blog Post
... on advancing the paper-based platform toward a more field-ready format when the Zika virus outbreak was... 2014). The second was an in vitro paper-based platform that allowed gene circuits to be deployed out ...out of the laboratory in a cell-free and biosafe format that was stable for up to a year at room temperature...we say the timeline to develop our paper-based platform into clinically relevant diagnostics for the Zika...prototyping pipeline that can take pathogen sequence information from public databases to the production of validated...regions of the genome, we have deposited the best performing sensors and constructs encoding corresponding...and electronic companion technologies that has transformed the assay’s capabilities. Specifically this includes...