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nostic tools and assays , and broader distribution , and these tools will be portable and field-ready .
rapid diagnosis will help ef- forts to isolate people faster if they are positive , and to di- rect resources to the appro- priate areas .
Is biosecurity fundamen- tally changing how society protects itself ?
-cost diagnostic device that will be capable essing cycle , an important step forward in s disease detection .
• We will be able to get diag- nostic devices into areas that aren ’ t as extensively resourced , like rural commu- nities .
• Speed of distribution and
• What we are seeing with bi- osecurity today is a conver- gence of technologies that have been in development for a decade or more from various areas .
• Biotechnology leverages ad- vances from many areas such as optics for imaging analy- sis , microfluidics to enable sample-to-answer assays , as well as new molecular tools like CRISPR .
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