From CRISPR Lab to COVID-19 Lab

Apr 02, 2020

The Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, has transformed itself from a lab exploring ways to apply CRISPR to one testing clinical samples to diagnose COVID-19, Wired reports.

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