Patho Tech10 Oct 2020 13:42
good discussion going here, ive been trying to understand the tech that Kromek are using here and think they must be using it unded licene from one of 3 American Gene Sequencing company's.Enabled thro' DARPA, but it's all reading between the lines for now.Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials are espousing the potential benefits of new technology to quickly address endemic, emerging and engineered pathogenic threats.The organization’s newest biotechnology funding opportunity, the Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies (DIGET) program, could help the Department of Defense maintain force readiness by informing rapid medical response to increase the standard of care for troops. It could also preserve geopolitical stability by preventing the spread of infectious disease from becoming a driver of conflict.“DARPA is pursuing the capability to detect and characterize any pathogen, regardless of when or where it emerges,” Renee Wegrzyn, the DIGET program manager, said. “There are three primary reasons that we think gene editing systems can help us realize that vision and they boil down to speed, accuracy, and precision.”