A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19

Z Tang, N Kong, X Zhang, Y Liu, P Hu, S Mou… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlights the importance of materials science in
providing tools and technologies for antiviral research and treatment development. In this …

Advances in RT-LAMP for COVID-19 testing and diagnosis

G Choi, TJ Moehling, RJ Meagher - Expert Review of Molecular …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and the subsequent limitations on
standard diagnostics, has vastly expanded the user base of Reverse Transcription Loop …

Isothermal SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics: tools for enabling distributed pandemic testing as a means of supporting safe reopenings

P Khan, LM Aufdembrink, AE Engelhart - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, poses grave threats to both the
global economy and health. The predominant diagnostic screens in use for SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Loop-mediated isothermal amplification detection of SARS-CoV-2 and myriad other applications

KJM Moore, J Cahill, G Aidelberg… - Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic begins, it remains clear that a massive
increase in the ability to test for SARS-CoV-2 infections in a myriad of settings is critical to …

Saliva as a sample type for SARS-CoV-2 detection: implementation successes and opportunities around the globe

ER Tobik, LB Kitfield-Vernon, RJ Thomas… - Expert Review of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Symptomatic testing and asymptomatic screening for SARS-CoV-2 continue to
be essential tools for mitigating virus transmission. Though COVID-19 diagnostics initially …

Electromechanical RT-LAMP device for portable SARS-CoV-2 detection

EA Tarim, C Oksuz, B Karakuzu, O Appak, AA Sayiner… - Talanta, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid point-of-care tests for infectious diseases are essential, especially in pandemic
conditions. We have developed a point-of-care electromechanical device to detect SARS …

A simple direct RT-LAMP SARS-CoV-2 saliva diagnostic

MJ Flynn, O Snitser, J Flynn, S Green, I Yelin… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Widespread, frequent testing is essential for curbing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Because its simplicity makes it ideal for widely distributed, high throughput testing, RT-LAMP …

A fast and accessible method for the isolation of RNA, DNA, and protein to facilitate the detection of SARS-CoV-2

JC Ponce-Rojas, MS Costello, DA Proctor… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Management of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic requires widespread
testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A main limitation …

An ultralow-cost portable centrifuge from discarded materials for medical applications

JJ Franco, T Nagata, T Okamoto, S Mukai - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Reliable centrifugation for medical applications has historically required access to
expensive, bulky, and electricity-dependent commercial devices, which are generally …

Homebrew: An economical and sensitive glassmilk-based nucleic-acid extraction method for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics

R Page, E Scourfield, M Ficarelli, SW McKellar… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Management of COVID-19 and other epidemics requires large-scale diagnostic testing. The
gold standard for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection …