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Sherlock debuts to develop CRISPR diagnostics with IP from Broad, Harvard

March 21, 2019 9:16 PM UTC

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard launched CRISPR diagnostic company Sherlock on Thursday with $35 million in funding and exclusive licenses to platforms developed by CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang and prominent synthetic biologist James Collins.

Sherlock Biosciences Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) plans to develop inexpensive, paper-based diagnostic tests that can rapidly detect RNA and DNA in a range of settings, including clinical, hospital, low-resource, at-home and point-of-care field settings...