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Researchers develop a fast, accurate, low-cost COVID-19 test:
A new low-cost diagnostic test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) quickly delivers accurate results without the need for sophisticated equipment, according to a study published August 27 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Teng Xu of the Vision Medicals Center for Infectious Diseases, Tieying Hou of the Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Bing Gu of the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Jianwei Wang of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, and colleagues.
[...] In the new study, the researchers developed an alternative COVID-19 test by leveraging CRISPR-based technology, which has been widely used in recent years for gene editing. The assay, named CRISPR-COVID, enables high-throughput detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) -- the virus that causes COVID-19. CRISPR-COVID delivers comparable sensitivity and specificity as mNGS within as short as 40 minutes. When produced at a large scale, the material cost of a CRISPR-COVID test could be less than 70 cents, suggesting that CRISPR-COVID is a competitive alternative not only technologically but also financially.
Journal Reference:
Tieying Hou, Weiqi Zeng, Minling Yang, et al. Development and evaluation of a rapid CRISPR-based diagnostic for COVID-19, PLOS Pathogens (DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008705)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @07:07PM (6 children)
Figures. After all, since this is a "Chay-nah" virus, one would not be surprised if the best test were developed there.
Of course, by the time the US medical cabal gets this to market, it will cost $7K per test with payment guaranteed by taxpayer funding.
At least there might be hope for getting results in fewer than three weeks.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @07:22PM (2 children)
If you are so smart why don't you extrapolate string theory and particle physics in your next post?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @07:52PM (1 child)
> extrapolate string theory and particle physics
Only a stable genius could supply you that answer. If only we knew where to find one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @09:29PM
Joe Biden can do it.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:08PM (1 child)
US researchers can't release their version until they figure out how to make it cause autism too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:42PM
Actually, it's the vaccine that must be engineered to cause autism.
Side-effects caused by testing would lead to less testing which would lead to a drop in discovery rates and the virus might just disappear.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:14AM
Hah! I knew Dick Cheney was behind the fake pandemic.