miSHERLOCK Non-invasive Home Testing of COVID-19

ABSTRACT

The emergence of various SARS-CoV-2 mutants accelerates the development of COVID-19 pandemic and seriously affects the normal society. Increasing the efficiency of virus screening and the ability to identify new mutants is thus crucial to the pandemic prevention and control. Recently, on Science Advances, Professor James J. Collins et al. developed a low-cost (similar to $ 15), rapid (similar to 60 min) and portable in-home detection device 14 SARS-CoV-2 and its variants based on the CRISPR/Cas technology, which was expected to provide a new option for rapid screening of SARS-CoV-2.