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DARPA Awards $36.7M to Six Organizations for Gene Editing-Based Dx, Biosurveillance Tech

Jan 14, 2021
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NEW YORK – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract worth up to $36.7 million over four years to MRIGlobal and a team of five other organizations under the auspices of its Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies (DIGET) program.

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