New York Student Develops CRISPR-Based Diagnostic Platform for TB

Meet Austin Jin, the 16-year-old Great Neck, New York student who built a CRISPR blood test to detect tuberculosis and drug resistance; he won $50,000

US News: Most teenagers go to a pathology office for a blood test. For Austin Jin, it was the launch pad to address one of medicine’s oldest and most enduring .

New York Student Develops CRISPR-based Diagnostic Platform for TB

Sixteen-year-old Austin Jin, a senior at William A. Shine Great Neck South High School in New York, has developed M-CATCH, a CRISPR-based diagnostic platform for tuberculosis. The test uses blood serum to detect bacterial DNA and can identify genetic mutations linked to drug resistance. M-CATCH uses polymerase chain reactions and CRISPR-Cas12a technology to find TB-related … Continue reading "New York Student Develops CRISPR-based Diagnostic Pl…