Students Invented a New Diagnostic for Lyme Disease — and a Tool for CRISPR Researchers
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Blog Post
Published
May 12, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
...CspZ, a surface protein of B. burgdorferi that persists in the human bloodstream for over 100 days after... crRNAs to target almost any protein biomarker. Sepsis is one of the main directions we've considered ...the fundamentals of techniques like PCR, gel electrophoresis, transformation, and how CRISPR works before...paired with sgRNA) to silence genes in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. So by the time we got to 2025, we already...