From gene to device: the route to disease diagnostics in low resource countries
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| Description: | Understand how synthetic biology is being used to design a pathway from gene to diagnostic in the diagnosis of infectious disease. |
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| Created: | 2018-10-25 12:14 |
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| Collection: | Alumni Festival 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Isabel Ronaldson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Distribution: |
World
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| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | Professor Lisa Hall describes how Cambridge is using synthetic biology to design a pathway from gene to diagnostic to produce a novel ‘self-packaging’ robust NAT reagent locally without significant resources. This is expected to allow sustained improvement in healthcare, while also developing the local economy. It is nearly ready to deploy in the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), Ghana as part of a collaborative project to test for malaria in clinical samples. |
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