ArticleBioengineering & translational medicine2026
Rapid, expression-free bacteriophage-based specific detection of target bacteria by conditional release of encapsidated reporter molecules.
Article in Bioengineering & translational medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Rapid, expression-free bacteriophage-based specific detection of target bacteria by conditional release of encapsidated reporter molecules.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases is of paramount importance to prevent or control outbreaks and pandemics. Detection of bacteria is commonly performed using culture-based and molecular detection methods, which cannot address the need for quick, specific and cheap diagnostics. Bacteriophage-based assays rely on the rapidity, specificity, contaminant-tolerance and effectiveness of phage-host interactions and can be engineered with fluorescence or luminescence-based reporters. Previous attempts, however, required transcription and translation of reporter genes, leading to long assays and restrictive protocols. Here, we shortened the signal generation time by detecting the injection of a phage protein, thereby circumventing the need for gene expression altogether. In our model diagnostic assay, we demonstrate that injection of the N-terminal fragment of the split nanoluciferase protein of
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.