Instead of today's crude tools, the new gene-derived tests will help doctors spottiny biochemical changes deep inside the body that presage the onset of myriad cancers, heart failure and other ills before symptoms appear.
The key to cracking that nut is apparently the new thermal assisted optical element Fujitsu's developed, allowing for an ultra-tiny sub-hundred nanometer optical spot size, which in turn should enable recording on the one terabit (not byte, let's not get crazy here) per square inch level.