Yangyang Wang, Furui Yang, Yingyi Fu, Xin He, Haowei Tian, Lili Yang, Mengxi Wu, Jijuan Cao, Junshan Liu
Genetically modified (GM) food is still highly controversial nowadays. Due to the disparate policies and attitudes worldwide, demands for a rapid, cost-effective and user-friendly GM crop identification method are increasingly significant for import administration, market supervision, etc. However, as the most-recognized methods, nucleic acid-based identification approaches require bulky instruments, long turn-around times and trained personnel, which are only suitable in laboratories. To fulfil the urgent needs of on-site testing, we develop a point-of-care testing platform that is able to identify 12 types of GM crops in less than 40 minutes without using laboratory settings...
April 22, 2024: Lab on a Chip