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Fezzie and her Draper col- leagues are developing just such a technology as part of a team recently selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).
Led by MRIGlobal , a world leader in technological and scientific research , the team is developing a massively multi-
plexed device ( MMD ) for DAR- PA ’ s “ Detect It with Gene Ed- iting Technologies ” ( DIGET ) program .
The aim , says DARPA , is to in- corporate gene editors into detectors for distributed health biosurveillance and rapid , point-of-need diagnostics for endemic , emerging and engi-
Rachel Fezzie and Charlie Lissandrello of Draper are developing a portable device for screening thousands of pathogens in minutes under DARPA ’ s Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies ( DIGET ) program . ( Courtesy of Draper )
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