Issue 20, 2024

CRISPR for companion diagnostics in low-resource settings

Abstract

New point-of-care tests (POCTs), which are especially useful in low-resource settings, are needed to expand screening capacity for diseases that cause significant mortality: tuberculosis, multiple cancers, and emerging infectious diseases. Recently, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based diagnostic (CRISPR-Dx) assays have emerged as powerful and versatile alternatives to traditional nucleic acid tests, revealing a strong potential to meet this need for new POCTs. In this review, we discuss CRISPR-Dx assay techniques that have been or could be applied to develop POCTs, including techniques for sample processing, target amplification, multiplex assay design, and signal readout. This review also describes current and potential applications for POCTs in disease diagnosis and includes future opportunities and challenges for such tests. These tests need to advance beyond initial assay development efforts to broadly meet criteria for use in low-resource settings.

Graphical abstract: CRISPR for companion diagnostics in low-resource settings

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Article information

Article type
Critical Review
Submitted
20 4 2024
Accepted
15 8 2024
First published
05 9 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Lab Chip, 2024,24, 4717-4740

CRISPR for companion diagnostics in low-resource settings

X. Qian, Q. Xu, C. J. Lyon and T. Y. Hu, Lab Chip, 2024, 24, 4717 DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00340C

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