{"id":3760,"date":"2021-02-08T20:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:11:41","slug":"rapid-electrochemical-detection-of-coronavirus-sars-cov-2rapid-electrochemical-detection-of-coronavirus-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/rapid-electrochemical-detection-of-coronavirus-sars-cov-2rapid-electrochemical-detection-of-coronavirus-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Electrochemical Detection of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2Rapid Electrochemical Detection of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study describing an electrochemical biosensor based on multiplex rolling circle amplification (RCA, in which a short DNA or RNA primer is amplified to make a long single strand) to detect the N and S genes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus showed that the assay could detect as few as 1 copy\/microliter of the genes in under 2 hours. The sensor was evaluated with 106 clinical samples (41 from SARS-CoV-2 positive individuals and 9 from other respiratory viruses) and showed 100% concordance with qRT-PCR.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Chaibun et al. (Dec 5, 2021). Rapid Electrochemical Detection of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Nature Communications. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-21121-7\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-021-21121-7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study describing an electrochemical biosensor based on multiplex rolling circle amplification (RCA, in which a short DNA or RNA primer is amplified to make a long single strand) to detect the N and S genes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus showed that the assay could detect as few as 1 copy\/microliter of the genes in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/rapid-electrochemical-detection-of-coronavirus-sars-cov-2rapid-electrochemical-detection-of-coronavirus-sars-cov-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}