Synthetic Biology On Ordinary Paper
New achievements in synthetic biology will allow complex cellular recognition reactions to proceed outside of living cells. There could one day be inexpensive, shippable and accurate test kits that use saliva or a drop of blood to identify specific disease or infection — a feat that could be accomplished anywhere in the world, within minutes and without laboratory support, just by using a pocket–sized paper diagnostic tool.
That once far–fetched idea seems within closer reach as a result of two new studies describing the advances, published October 23 in Cell,
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