Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),caused by SARS-CoV-2,has rapidly spread and caused a severe global pandemic.Because no specific drugs are available for COVID-19 and few vaccines are available for SARS-CoV-2,accurat...Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),caused by SARS-CoV-2,has rapidly spread and caused a severe global pandemic.Because no specific drugs are available for COVID-19 and few vaccines are available for SARS-CoV-2,accurate and rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 has been the most crucial measure to control this pandemic.Here,we developed a portable bifunctional electrical detector based on graphene fieldeffect transistors for SARS-CoV-2 through either nucleic acid hybridization or antigen-antibody protein interaction,with ultra-low limits of detection of~0.1 and~1 fg mL^(−1) in phosphate buffer saline,respectively.We validated our method by assessment of RNA extracts from the oropharyngeal swabs of ten COVID-19 patients and eight healthy subjects,and the IgM/IgG antibodies from serum specimens of six COVID-19 patients and three healthy subjects.Here we show that the diagnostic results are in excellent agreement with the findings of polymerase chain reaction-based optical methods;they also exhibit rapid detection speed(~10 min for nucleic acid detection and~5 min for immunoassay).Therefore,our assay provides an efficient,accurate tool for high-throughput point-of-care testing.展开更多
基金the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0204901)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21727806,21772003 and 21933001)+1 种基金the Tencent Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE,Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(2019B030302007)Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences(BNLMS201901)。
文摘Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),caused by SARS-CoV-2,has rapidly spread and caused a severe global pandemic.Because no specific drugs are available for COVID-19 and few vaccines are available for SARS-CoV-2,accurate and rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 has been the most crucial measure to control this pandemic.Here,we developed a portable bifunctional electrical detector based on graphene fieldeffect transistors for SARS-CoV-2 through either nucleic acid hybridization or antigen-antibody protein interaction,with ultra-low limits of detection of~0.1 and~1 fg mL^(−1) in phosphate buffer saline,respectively.We validated our method by assessment of RNA extracts from the oropharyngeal swabs of ten COVID-19 patients and eight healthy subjects,and the IgM/IgG antibodies from serum specimens of six COVID-19 patients and three healthy subjects.Here we show that the diagnostic results are in excellent agreement with the findings of polymerase chain reaction-based optical methods;they also exhibit rapid detection speed(~10 min for nucleic acid detection and~5 min for immunoassay).Therefore,our assay provides an efficient,accurate tool for high-throughput point-of-care testing.
