CRISPR pioneer Doudna opens lab to run Covid-19 tests
A team of academic and industry researchers led by Jennifer Doudna, the CRISPR pioneer, has turned a 2,500-square-foot scientific laboratory into a Covid-19 testing facility.
by Matthew Herper
Mar 30, 2020
2 minutes
A team of academic and industry researchers led by Jennifer Doudna, the researcher best known for her role in the discovery of the gene editing technology called CRISPR, has turned a 2,500-square-foot scientific laboratory into a facility for running medical tests to detect the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
The laboratory, which plans to serve hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area, says it will be able to process more
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