Going straight to the source-I emailed Chad Mirkin, founder of Nanosphere, the following:
" Hi Chad,
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> I had a quick question regarding Nanosphere’s products and the newly unfortunate outbreak of Ebola: Are Nanosphere’s products capable of early, rapid detection of Ebola? Is this something that Nanosphere plans to research at all?
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> Thanks for any info you can provide!"
His response:
" Their technology can certainly do this but they would need to obtain an FDA clearance.
Chad A. Mirkin"