# Sherlock Biosciences

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sherlock-biosciences/  
**Website:** https://sherlock.bio/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Sherlock Biosciences is a molecular diagnostics company founded in 2019 out of the Broad Institute to commercialize SHERLOCK (Specific High-sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter unLOCKing), the CRISPR-based nucleic-acid detection method developed in the Zhang lab, alongside INSPECTR, an ambient-temperature synthetic-biology amplification platform. In May 2020 it received the first FDA Emergency Use Authorization ever granted to a CRISPR-based diagnostic, for SARS-CoV-2. The company developed disposable, instrument-free molecular self-tests, led by a combined Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae assay. OraSure Technologies acquired Sherlock Biosciences in December 2024 and absorbed it into its rapid-diagnostics portfolio; the sherlock.bio domain now permanently redirects to orasure.com. Sherlock Biosciences is a laboratory diagnostics developer and has never operated a public developer program, HTTP API, or machine-readable API contract.

## Kin Score — 4.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 53.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 7.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Sherlock Biosciences Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Diagnostics, Molecular Diagnostics, CRISPR, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Infectious Disease, Point of Care Testing, Synthetic Biology, Bioinformatics, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sherlock-biosciences/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.