Alphabet’s Verily opens own lab to speed up COVID testing

The buzzy life sciences company Verily is looking to speed up COVID testing with a new lab based at its native South San Francisco.

In a blog post, Verily, Alphabet's life sciences research arm and a sister company to Google, has set up its own CLIA-certified lab (i.e., it has clinical laboratory credentials) and used tech from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s‎ TaqPath test kit, which has an emergency use tag (EUA) from the FDA, to test for COVID-19.