HEALTH & SAFETY
Harnessing the power of biosensors
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The threat of COVID-19, and the ongoing opening up of our society, has made its biological detection a critical health and security need
here has never been a greater need for dynamic, practical, high speed, and highly sensitive pathogen detection. Technologies are available today which make real-time detection of viruses, toxins and
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bacteria possible, providing timely information and confidence in the decision-making needed to protect employees, rule out false-alarms, and allow places to reopen and stay open safely. We need to harness the use of this technology to rebuild people’s
confidence and to allow places of learning to flourish once again. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact across the world and many different industries. At the forefront, education has been