Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
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Blog Post
.... The first was a new class of programmable riboregulators, called toehold switches, which allow for the...allowed gene circuits to be deployed out of the laboratory in a cell-free and biosafe format that was stable...circuit-based sensors to be used outside of the laboratory. The detection threshold for these RNA sequences...the technology through product development, the regulatory process, and manufacturing so that we can get...., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed regulators of gene expression." Cell 159.4 (2014): 925-939...