Development of Metal-organic Framework Based Biosensor to Detect the Coronavirus (Covid-19)

Recent outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) caused around 7 million deaths people worldwide and still afflicting on the global health, economy and social setup. Timely detection and diagnosis are crucial steps to reduce the spread and prevention of any pandemic. Different types of diagnosis methos has been used. In last decade nanomaterials and metal organic frameworks (MOFs) based biosensors has been developed to detect the other viruses. We have designed the Zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) based biosensor to detect the COVID-19. ZIF-8 work as fluorescence quenching and re-emergence platform to detect the COVID-19 RNA sequences. ZIF-8 platform is highly sensitive which can distinguish the highly conserved single strand RNA and with 200 pM concentrations. It can distinguish down to the single mismatch nucleotide in RNA sequences.