C. lab, Dr. Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ehle) tries to isolate the virus and develop enough of it to create a serum.

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When Epiphany Biosciences, a tiny San Francisco drug developer, was looking for a hepatitis C antiviral compound to test in the lab, it could have saved a few thousand bucks by hiring test tube drones from India.

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Hepatitis C has been a particularly tough virus to target because it has proven very difficult to grow in the lab.

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