Ginkgo Bioworks, Octant to Establish Bay Area Coronavirus Test Processing Facility

Dec 10, 2020

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NEW YORK — Ginkgo Bioworks and Octant said on Thursday that they will open a new SARS-CoV-2 test processing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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