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Viruses have caused substantial health problems in the world. In 2019, the ravage caused by SARS-CoV-2 highlights the global health danger of emergent pathogens again. Rapid diagnostics of viruses is essential for timely, frequently life-saving treatment. Rapid diagnostics of viruses is essential for timely, and frequently life-saving, treatment. However, most diagnostic testing methods are only capable of detecting single species of virus. In addition, viruses can mutate rapidly, a process which can render single-target diagnostics ineffective.
UC Berkeley researchers have developed synthetic DNA arrays as a universal platform to bind viruses with multivalent aptamers which is more tolerant to mutations and capable of detecting multiple species of viruses simultaneously.
Diagnostic, virus