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Chemical Translational Biology‐Guided Molecular Diagnostics: The Front Line To Mediate the Current SARS‐CoV‐2 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Dai Yifan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chembiochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1439-7633
pISSN - 1439-4227
DOI - 10.1002/cbic.202000518
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , front line , coronavirus , systems biology , computational biology , biology , nanotechnology , computer science , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , political science , disease , pathology , materials science , outbreak , law
The spread of severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has disrupted our global society in unprecedented ways. The very front line in defense against this pandemic is molecular diagnosis, which is an exceptional representation of how chemical translational biology can benefit our lives. In this viewpoint, I emphasize the imperative demand for a simple and rapid point‐of‐care system in order to mediate the spread of COVID‐19. I further describe how the interdisciplinary combination of chemistry and biology advances biosensing systems, which potentially lead to integrated and automated point‐of‐care systems capable of relieving the current pandemic.