"The most promising way to perform large numbers of tests, says Mitchell O’Connell, a biochemist at the University of Rochester in New York, will be to use a mix of methods that rely on different instruments and supply chains so that a sudden worldwide demand won’t deplete any key materials. “Any new technology that is able to expand the number of tests that we can do is good news,” he says. If those tests are ready soon, it would be good news for the current pandemic and for future outbreaks. Many of the assays in development could be readily adapted to an emerging pathogen once its genetic sequence is decoded, says Isabella Eckerle, a virologist at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Eckerle says that, even though the ideal test doesn’t yet exist — one that is accurate, rapid, inexpensive, and easy to use and scale up — “there are many things in the pipeline that could be useful.”"
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