ByJohn Cumbers,
Former Contributor.
On January 4, 2018, Boston was shut down by a blizzard, but Rahul Dhanda was on a mission. A few months prior, the veteran of the diagnostics industry had gotten a call from David Walt—Harvard professor and scientific founder of biotech heavyweight
Illumina—about a potential startup company Walt was exploring with synthetic biology pioneers Feng Zhang and Jim Collins. Despite the weather, Dhanda, in his business jacket and snow pants, trudged through two feet of snow to pitch his vision for that company to its founders. The day ended with dinner and one takeaway: “Let’s do it.”
That company is Sherlock Biosciences, and just two years after that fateful January day, it received the first FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its Crispr-based Covid-19 test, and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
Today, Sherlock announced that it has partnered with binx health to scale the rapid diagnostic test for point-of-care [...]
Who is Chris Forbes? Chris Forbes is a Lecturer in Ancient History. His fields of research and teaching focus on New Testament history, Alexander the Great and Hellenistic history, Graeco-Roman History of Ideas and intersection of early Christianity and Graeco-Roman culture. Forbes research is in the relationship
between religion and philosophy in Graeco-Roman thought. He gained his BA Dip.Ed. in Ancient History at Macquarie in 1978, and PhD in Ancient History in 1987.
What is CRISPR? CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea. These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of bacteriophages that had previously infected the prokaryote. They are used to
detect and destroy DNA from similar bacteriophages during subsequent infections. CRISPR technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and modify gene function. Its many potential applications include correcting genetic defects, treating and preventing the spread of diseases and improving crops.
What is Technology? Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. A modern example is the rise of communication technology, which has lessened barriers to human interaction
and as a result has helped spawn new subcultures; the rise of cyberculture has at its basis the development of the Internet, computer, smartphone, and Artificial Intelligence.
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