Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

A role for Biofoundries in rapid development and validation of automated SARS-CoV-2 clinical diagnostics

  • Michael A. Crone,
  • Miles Priestman,
  • Marta Ciechonska,
  • Kirsten Jensen,
  • David J. Sharp,
  • Arthi Anand,
  • Paul Randell,
  • Marko Storch,
  • Paul S. Freemont

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18130-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has created large demand on global testing capability. Here the authors use the London Biofoundry, an automated synthetic biology platform, and develop an open-source virus-like particle to implement high-throughput diagnostics.