Polymerase-chain-reaction-based methods used in clinic to identify respiratory viral infections cannot simultaneously detect multiple viruses or viral variants. Here nanopore nucleic acid sensing is coupled to programmable ribonuclease to simultaneously identify specific short RNA sequences of multiple viruses, without predetection steps such as sample purification or preamplification.
- Filip Bošković
- Jinbo Zhu
- Ulrich F. Keyser