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NATURE
Volume 582, Issue 7811, Pages 277-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2279-8
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [D18AC00006]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Bridge Project, an MIT Deshpande Center Innovation Award
- Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Award
- NIH [F32CA236425]
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The great majority of globally circulating pathogens go undetected, undermining patient care and hindering outbreak preparedness and response. To enable routine surveillance and comprehensive diagnostic applications, there is a need for detection technologies that can scale to test many samples(1-3)while simultaneously testing for many pathogens(4-6). Here, we develop Combinatorial Arrayed Reactions for Multiplexed Evaluation of Nucleic acids (CARMEN), a platform for scalable, multiplexed pathogen detection. In the CARMEN platform, nanolitre droplets containing CRISPR-based nucleic acid detection reagents(7)self-organize in a microwell array(8)to pair with droplets of amplified samples, testing each sample against each CRISPR RNA (crRNA) in replicate. The combination of CARMEN and Cas13 detection (CARMEN-Cas13) enables robust testing of more than 4,500 crRNA-target pairs on a single array. Using CARMEN-Cas13, we developed a multiplexed assay that simultaneously differentiates all 169 human-associated viruses with at least 10 published genome sequences and rapidly incorporated an additional crRNA to detect the causative agent of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. CARMEN-Cas13 further enables comprehensive subtyping of influenza A strains and multiplexed identification of dozens of HIV drug-resistance mutations. The intrinsic multiplexing and throughput capabilities of CARMEN make it practical to scale, as miniaturization decreases reagent cost per test by more than 300-fold. Scalable, highly multiplexed CRISPR-based nucleic acid detection shifts diagnostic and surveillance efforts from targeted testing of high-priority samples to comprehensive testing of large sample sets, greatly benefiting patients and public health(9-11).
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