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ReviewJournal of medical virology2021

Development and application of sensitive, specific, and rapid CRISPR-Cas13-based diagnosis.

David Shihong Gao, Xiaodong Zhu, Binfeng Lu

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Review in Journal of medical virology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Research Progress on the Application of CRISPR/Cas System in Rapid Testing of Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Clinical Practice].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2026
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  2. A Modular and Programmable Cas13d Platform for RNA Single Nucleotide Variant Detection.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  12. A review on the mechanism and potential diagnostic application of CRISPR/Cas13a system.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2025
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  15. A Critical Review of the CRISPR-Cas Technology in the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David Shihong GaoDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2534
Xiaodong ZhuDepartment of Biological Sciences, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Binfeng LuDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acid detection is a necessary part of medical treatment and fieldwork. However, the current detection technologies are far from ideal. A lack of timely and accessible testing for identifying cases and close contacts has allowed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative virus of the ongoing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, to spread uncontrollably. The slow and expensive detection of mutations-predictors for chronic diseases such as cancer-form a barrier to personalized treatment. A recently developed diagnostic assay is ideal and field-ready-it relies on CRISPR-Cas13. CRISPR-Cas13 works similarly to other CRISPR systems: Cas13 is guided by a crRNA to cleave next to a specific RNA target sequence. Additionally, Cas13 boasts a unique collateral cleavage activity; collateral cleavage of a fluorescent reporter detects the presence of the target sequence in sample RNA. This system forms the basis of CRISPR-Cas13 diagnostic assays. CRISPR-Cas13 assays have >95% sensitivity and >99% specificity. Detection is rapid (<2 h), inexpensive ($0.05 per test), and portable-a test using lateral flow strips is akin to a pregnancy test. The recent adaptation of micro-well chips facilitates high-level multiplexing and is high-throughput. In this review, we cover the development of CRISPR-Cas13 assays for medical diagnosis, discuss the advantages of CRISPR-Cas13-based diagnosis over the traditional reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and present examples of detection from real patient samples.

Indexed as

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCOVID-19CRISPR-Cas SystemsHumansRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2RNA, Viralclustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated genes 13coronavirus disease 2019nucleic acid detectionsevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2specific high-sensitivity enzymatic reporter unlocking

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PMID33599292
PMCPMC8014745
OpenAlexW3132093718

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