Students Invented a New Diagnostic for Lyme Disease — and a Tool for CRISPR Researchers
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May 12, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
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Broughton, J. P., Deng, X., Yu, G...primers and Cas12a sgRNA both needed to pair with different parts of the joined-aptamer sequence generated...impact close to home. We started looking into different problems and Lyme disease kept coming up. It's...but it's still significantly underdiagnosed. The current test relies on antibodies that don't appear until...system… The advantage is that you can swap in different aptamers and crRNAs to target almost any protein...of that, our 2024 project SHIELD used CRISPR interference (a deactivated Cas9 paired with sgRNA) to silence...model had actually predicted this could happen. We weren't generating enough copies of the ligated product...