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CRISPR-Based SARS-CoV-2 Test From UC Santa Barbara Shows High Sensitivity for Asymptomatic Screening

Feb 11, 2021
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NEW YORK – A new CRISPR-based molecular diagnostic for SARS-CoV-2 aims to make COVID-19 screening more equitable and broadly deployed.

As described Thursday in JAMA Network Open, the method — called Cas13-based, rugged, equitable, scalable testing, or CREST — showed high concordance with gold-standard testing.

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