City-of-London-UK

October 21, 2023

City-of-London-UK # Genoswitch # Women’s health is an area within medicine that has been historically underfunded and under researched. Currently, tests for common conditions in women’s health are rudimentary and invasive, with women often not receiving a diagnosis for many years after the onset of symptoms. Project Genoswitch aims to spread awareness about women’s health and to develop a modular cell-free diagnostic test that can decrease the length of time to receive a diagnosis, by detecting upregulated microRNA biomarkers in the bloodstream, using four toehold switches in one composite gene fragment, which can each detect three upregulated microRNAs in the serum of patients with the condition. ...