Anomalous COVID-19 tests hinder researchers

Science. 2021 Jan 15;371(6526):244-245. doi: 10.1126/science.abf8873.

Lindsey R Robinson-McCarthy¹, Alexander J Mijalis¹, Gabriel T Filsinger², Helena de Puig^{3

4}, Nina M Donghia³, Thomas E Schaus³, Robert A Rasmussen³, Raphael Ferreira^{1

3}, Jeantine E Lunshof^{3

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6}, George Chao¹, Dmitry Ter-Ovanesyan³, Oliver Dodd^{1

3}, Erkin Kuru^{1

3}, Adama M Sesay³, Joshua Rainbow^{3

7}, Andrew C Pawlowski^{1

3}, Timothy M Wannier¹, Peng Yin^{3

2}, James J Collins^{3

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11}, Donald E Ingber^{3

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14}, George M Church^{1

3

11}, Jenny M Tam^{15

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¹ Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁴ Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁶ Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
⁸ Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
⁹ Synthetic Biology Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
¹⁰ Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
¹¹ Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
¹² Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹⁴ Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. jenny.tam@wyss.harvard.edu.

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