TY - JOUR T1 - An ultrasensitive, rapid, and portable coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 sequence detection method based on CRISPR-Cas12 JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2020.02.29.971127 SP - 2020.02.29.971127 AU - Curti Lucia AU - Pereyra-Bonnet Federico AU - Gimenez Carla Alejandra Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/03/02/2020.02.29.971127.abstract N2 - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has received global attention due to the recent outbreak in China. In this work, we report a CRISPR-Cas12 based diagnostic tool to detect synthetic SARS-CoV-2 RNA sequences in a proof-of-principle evaluation. The test proved to be sensitive, rapid, and potentially portable. These key traits of the CRISPR method are critical for virus detection in regions that lack resources to use the currently available methods. ER -