These cancer scientists turned their lab into a coronavirus-testing facility

These cancer scientists turned their lab into a coronavirus-testing facility

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“About four weeks ago it was clear that London was going to lock down and labs were going to be left empty. Scientists didn’t want to sit at home and read despondent reports about increases in deaths.”

Oncologist Charlie Swanton shares how researchers at one of Europe’s largest biomedical-research centres, the Francis Crick Institute, have retooled their cancer lab into a diagnostic-testing facility. (Nature | 4 min read)