CRISPR coronavirus test promises results in under an hour

A coronavirus test that could give results in under an hour has been developed, with the CRISPR-based SARS-CoV-2 DETECTR adding gene-targeting to the methods currently in use to track down COVID-19 infection. CRISPR – or “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” – gene editing is better known for its controversial use in genetic engineering for things like diseases, which has …