Team Description
iGEM IIT Kharagpur team-2020 comprises of a group of high spirited undergraduates united by their enthusiasm for science.
Our project aims to develop a nucleic acid detection platform for point-of-care disease identification leveraging CRISPR dCas9 system, explicitly targeting COVID-19 biomarkers using a synthetic biology approach. Our method shall overcome the challenges of the existing techniques for clinical diagnosis, decreasing the cost and time required to carry out the diagnosis.
