UCI-developed COVID-19 test detects, identifies specific variants with 100% accuracy Recent work from PhD candidate Kefan Yang was featured in this UCI News article. This work presents a COVID-19 test that detects and identifies specific SARS-CoV-2 variants with 100% accuracy. Recently published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a paper on the research describes the…
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ALS Highlights the Mechanism of DNA Synthesis Publication
The Advanced Light Source at the Berkeley Lab highlights the Chaput lab’s recent publication on the mechanism of DNA synthesis in a Science Brief. The specific Nature Communication publication discusses newly discovered intermediates that provide greater context to replication by a DNA polymerase; the exact order and transition between intermediates was solved by time-resolved X-ray…
Read More“Expanding the Chemical Diversity of TNA with tUTP Derivatives that are Substrates for a TNA Polymerase” Manuscript Accepted
The TNA UTP base analog manuscript, entitled “Expanding the Chemical Diversity of TNA with tUTP Derivatives that are Substrates for a TNA Polymerase”, has just been accepted into Chemical Communication!
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