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A Portable RT-LAMP/CRISPR Machine for Rapid COVID-19 Screening
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Rezaei, Meysam Bazaz, Sajad Razavi Rad, Dorsa Morshedi Shimoni, Olga Jin, Dayong Rawlinson, William Warkiani, Majid Ebrahimi |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people’s lives and has brought society to a sudden standstill, with lockdowns and social distancing as the preferred preventative measures. To lift these measurements and reduce society’s burden, developing an easy-to-use, rapid, and portable system to detect SARS-CoV-2 is mandatory. To this end, we developed a portable and semi-automated device for SARS-CoV-2 detection based on reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification followed by a CRISPR/Cas12a reaction. The device contains a heater element mounted on a printed circuit board, a cooler fan, a proportional integral derivative controller to control the temperature, and designated areas for 0.2 mL $Eppendorf^{®}$ PCR tubes. Our system has a limit of detection of 35 copies of the virus per microliter, which is significant and has the capability of being used in crisis centers, mobile laboratories, remote locations, or airports to diagnose individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2. We believe the current methodology that we have implemented in this article is beneficial for the early screening of infectious diseases, in which fast screening with high accuracy is necessary. |
| Starting Page | 369 |
| e-ISSN | 20796374 |
| DOI | 10.3390/bios11100369 |
| Journal | Biosensors |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-10-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Biosensors Sars-cov-2 Covid-19 Point of Care Testing Rapid Diagnostics |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
