Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Visual and modular detection of pathogen nucleic acids with enzyme–DNA molecular complexes

  • Nicholas R. Y. Ho,
  • Geok Soon Lim,
  • Noah R. Sundah,
  • Diana Lim,
  • Tze Ping Loh,
  • Huilin Shao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05733-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Rapid, visual detection of pathogens is important for point-of-care diagnostics. Here the authors present enVision, which uses enzyme-DNA complexes to detect pathogen nucleic acids and provide a rapid, smartphone compatible readout.