…carried away with that story," says Hodak. "There was never any danger.") Hodak now runs
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, a company that builds and operates robot-run labs in shipping container-sized boxes. It packs them with enough computing power to run multiple experiments from anywhere in the world. Theoretically, a scientist in Monrovia, Liberia, with access to a laptop or a mobile phone could use a
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lab to test strains of Ebola. Byers, who is the son of Brook Byers of…