Amplification-free CRISPR/Cas detection technology: challenges, strategies, and perspectives

H Li, Y Xie, F Chen, H Bai, L Xiu, X Zhou… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid and accurate molecular diagnosis is a prerequisite for precision medicine, food
safety, and environmental monitoring. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

Advanced point‐of‐care testing technologies for human acute respiratory virus detection

Z Zhang, P Ma, R Ahmed, J Wang, D Akin… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ever‐growing global threats to human life caused by the human acute respiratory virus
(RV) infections have cost billions of lives, created a significant economic burden, and …

Photocontrolled crRNA activation enables robust CRISPR-Cas12a diagnostics

M Hu, Z Qiu, Z Bi, T Tian, Y Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
CRISPR diagnostics based on nucleic acid amplification faces barriers to its commercial
use, such as contamination risks and insufficient sensitivity. Here, we propose a robust …

Review of analytical performance of COVID-19 detection methods

B Giri, S Pandey, R Shrestha, K Pokharel… - Analytical and …, 2021 - Springer
In the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, public health experts have emphasized testing,
tracking infected people, and tracing their contacts as an effective strategy to reduce the …

CRISPR-Cas based virus detection: Recent advances and perspectives

L Yin, S Man, S Ye, G Liu, L Ma - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2021 - Elsevier
Viral infections are one of the most intimidating threats to human beings. One convincing
example is the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2. Rapid …

CRISPR‐Cas biochemistry and CRISPR‐based molecular diagnostics

Z Weng, Z You, J Yang, N Mohammad… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)‐based nucleic acid testing has played a critical role in
disease diagnostics, pathogen surveillance, and many more. However, this method requires …

An engineered CRISPR-Cas12a variant and DNA-RNA hybrid guides enable robust and rapid COVID-19 testing

KH Ooi, MM Liu, JWD Tay, SY Teo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extensive testing is essential to break the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, which causes the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we present a CRISPR-based diagnostic assay that is …

Droplet Cas12a assay enables DNA quantification from unamplified samples at the single-molecule level

H Yue, B Shu, T Tian, E Xiong, M Huang, D Zhu… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
DNA quantification is important for biomedical research, but the routinely used techniques
rely on nucleic acid amplification which have inherent issues like cross-contamination risk …

CRISPR/Cas12a-based technology: A powerful tool for biosensing in food safety

Z Mao, R Chen, X Wang, Z Zhou, Y Peng, S Li… - Trends in Food Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background In the context of the current pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus,
molecular detection is not limited to the clinical laboratory, but also faces the challenge of …

Factors influencing the antimicrobial mechanism of chitosan action and its derivatives: A review

M Nasaj, M Chehelgerdi, B Asghari… - International journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chitosan, a versatile amino polysaccharide biopolymer derived from chitin, exhibits broad-
spectrum antimicrobial activity against various pathogenic microorganisms, including gram …