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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.
Source: Vincent Yu/AP

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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