A group of Georgia students from Lambert High School in Forsyth County are drawing national attention after developing what may be a faster, more precise way to detect Lyme disease.

According to CBS News, the students' work has reached a level that veteran scientists say could become a major step forward in diagnosing the tick-borne illness that affects hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.

Here's what we know.

How did Georgia high school students do this?

Lambert High School’s iGEM team, a competitive synthetic biology program run out of a college-level lab, set out to solve a longstanding problem in Lyme research: early detection.

Current tests often miss the infection in its first two weeks, when treatment is most effective. Per CBS News, the students used CRISPR, the

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