The diagnosis of infectious diseases is ineffective when the diagnostic test does not meet
one or more of the necessary standards of affordability, accessibility, and accuracy. The …

Background Agri-food safety has been considered as one of the most important public
concerns worldwide. From farm to table, food crops and foods are extremely vulnerable to …

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-caused COVID-19
pandemic has transmitted to humans in practically all parts of the world, producing socio …

Conventional and routine diagnostics such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and
serological tests are less sensitive, costly, and require sample pretreatment procedures …

Infectious diseases continue to pose an imminent threat to global public health, leading to
high numbers of deaths every year and disproportionately impacting developing countries …

Infectious diseases and tumors have become the biggest medical challenges in the 21st
century. They are driven by multiple factors such as population growth, aging, climate …

Diagnostic approaches capable of ultrasensitive pathogen detection from low‐volume
clinical samples, running without any sophisticated instrument and laboratory setup, are …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) causes the ancient infectious disease of tuberculosis,
and its rapid, specific, and sensitive detection has long been a challenging endeavor …

Context Gene editing–based therapies are currently in development in the areas of
oncology, inherited disease, and infectious disease. These potentially life-altering therapies …

Nucleic acid-based alternatives, including polymerase chain reaction, nucleic acid
hybridization, and isothermal amplification techniques, satisfy the requirement of rapid and …