Cas13-based diagnostics can be performed at point-of-care or home using a swab, buffer, and paper strip.

“what CER team provided is something that's more similar to antigen test um where you can run it um at a point of care or or even potentially at home um and uh and it was simply uh required to take a swab um to have the sample you mix the sample into a buffer um and then and then certin would react in that buffer to be able to detect the virus sequence then you load it onto a paper strip it will run and then um you see whether or not a band shows up”