A CRISPR-associated nuclease that can promiscuously cleave RNAs enables a rapid and cheap test for the single-molecule detection and single-base discrimination of nucleic acids.
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Zuo, X., Fan, C. & Chen, HY. Biosensing: CRISPR-powered diagnostics. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0091 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0091
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