Chagas disease
The Massachusetts-based startup aims to advance testing for parasitic and viral diseases including Chagas, Zika, Lyme, and tapeworm and liver fluke infections.
Chagas Disease Protective Variant Found in Indigenous Amazon Populations
With genome profiles for more than 100 individuals from populations in the Amazon, investigators focused in on selection signatures linked to Trypanosoma cruzi response.
The TaqMan PCR classifies six types of Trypanosoma cruzi and was validated on a large international set of samples.
Researchers used arrays with more than 175,000 peptides matching sections of the Chagas pathogen proteome to characterize novel elements of the immune response to infection.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a new PCR platform for low-resource settings that utilizes heat generated by a personal computer to perform thermocycling, and detects amplification using a mobile phone camera.