EditorialLab technician Angelica Garces at the Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works with positive coronavirus samples on Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Clarke, a lab technician at the Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works with positive coronavirus samples on Feb. 3, 2021.
EditorialCoronavirus samples for genomic sequencing being unpacked in the Bonsignori Lab of Duke University in Durham, N.C., Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Clarke, a lab technician at the Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works with positive coronavirus samples on Feb. 3, 2021.
EditorialCoronavirus samples for genomic sequencing being unpacked in the Bonsignori Lab of Duke University in Durham, N.C., Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Charles Chiu, a professor of laboratory medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Sept. 28, 2019. (James Tensuan/The New York Times)