Science explains: CRISPR diagnostics

A home test for Zika? CRISPR may make it possible. How can CRISPR/Cas being used for diagnostics in the lab or even in the field?

Read the papers:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6387/436
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6387/439
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6387/444

CREDITS

producer/editor/animator/narrator
Nguyen Khoi Nguyen

supervising producer
Sarah Crespi

script
Jon Cohen

citation
J. Gootenberg et al.,
Science 2018
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaq0179

J. Chen et al.,
Science 2018
DOI: 10.1126/science.aar6245

C. Myhrvold et al.,
Science 2018
DOI: 10.1126/science.aas8836

photography and video
Zhang Lab, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

music
Nguyen Khoi Nguyen