"Guozhen Liu, a bioengineer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, says that technologies such as CRISPR could be “a game changer” in the current pandemic. Thanks to their ability to quickly and precisely identify genetic snippets, these approaches “can find a needle in a haystack”, Liu says. They use different reagents from RT-PCR-based assays — useful when there are shortages of chemical supplies for standard tests — and they can be designed to target any pathogen. For example, a team led by computational biologist Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute created rubber ‘chips’ about the size of a smartphone that can search 1,000 samples for a single virus, or 5 samples for a panel of 169 viruses that are known to infect humans8."
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