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Professor gave a long to come forward and there share his stopping. In this very dark and Dr Quantum is an associate professor in the Wallace culture department of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory is also awfully good to the Institute for electronics and nanotechnology this lab pioneer stands for made of by technologies to address front here clinical challenges and cancer are going to translate rejection and Infectious Diseases.

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On this b.s. with highest honors with u.c. Berkeley is ph d. from Cal Tech and conduct a post-doctoral research at the mit. In recognition office work Dr Wong has been hard with selective distinctions including the borrows welcome phone carrier award and the and they hedged directors new innovator award as well Dr Quan co-founded a company called a glimpse bio in 2015 and holds 20 plus issue dot pending patterns and by medical technology a let's welcome Professor want to talk was honest topic related to point of care diagnostics d.n.a. based isothermal amplification and paper test strips practical one.

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Ok fantastic well. Thanks Paul for the for the for the introduction and this is as it's always very interesting when we learn how to adapt as a community to different things that happen in environment and having these virtual meetings I think it's fantastic allows a still to maintain a sense of.

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You know community. But space get of coffee this is virtual and so I can be there in person and that you can you know so we're all in this together so when when Paul asked me to to share some of our work traditionally the seminars are more research heavy it's focused on you know presenting a lot of the main themes that are occurring in a lab but because of the code it endemic.

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We like many alas were traditionally not thinking about barrel testing on pieces of paper but we shifted gears recently and especially with you know all the stuff that's going on so what I thought I do in this seminar is make it more a teaching seminar where the 1st half hour describe what what is the real testing challenges for Cove it.

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Took Over 19 and then in the 2nd half I'll show you some of the progress that we've made in my lab in developing hopefully what we think will be a point of care paper test that could be potentially scaled to the point where it could where we could attempt to think about doing mega testing for a cause in 19 so that's the broad overview of the of the agenda today.

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Ok so I 1st want to start off with some statistics and so this is the most recent data that we've just compiled that yesterday if you look at the total number of coping $1000.00 cases the United States it's really striking that you can see that we're still in a very strong growth phase where compared to all the other nations it's just United States United Kingdom where are the number of cases is dramatically increasing still per day and if you compare this with countries like South Korea who basically we were basically at the same place in late February early March in terms of number of cases a number of covert related deaths but what's striking is that they were able to implement many different types of measures including widespread testing which was able to so-called flatten the curve as you see in the trace on the bottom and so one of the factors that contributes to the to this sharply increased.