DETECTR

DETECTR, like CAMERA, employs CRISPR technology to create a totally new application. DETECTR, which is designed to detect any type of genetic information sent into it, could soon prove to be a groundbreaking tool for early identification of serious diseases. DETECTR was used in one experiment to detect the HPV virus, a recognized cause of cervical cancer, among other sorts of viral strains, and it showed to be highly effective. The similar technology could be improved to detect early indicators of diseases such as Alzheimer's or cancer.

DETECTR has also been used successfully to build an accurate approach for detecting Covid, which may be useful in future epidemics. They verified their method with fabricated reference samples and clinical samples from patients in the United States, including 36 with COVID-19 infection and 42 with other viral respiratory diseases. With 95% positive predictive agreement and 100% negative predictive agreement, their CRISPR-based DETECTR assay outperforms the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SARS-CoV-2 real-time RT-PCR assay.

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