COVID 1 (IMAGE)

Rice University

COVID 1

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Rice University postdoctoral researcher Jie Yang led an effort to adapt Cas13 genome editing tools to serve as a highly sensitive detector for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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