Up the escalator in a swanky high rise of shiny new office space and through what looks like your standard startup HQ furnished with a stocked kitchen and colourful wall decor, there are six rooms equipped to carry out some serious science. They’re kitted out with made-on-site bioreactors, stem cell incubators and other equipment you’d expect to see in a life science campus out in the sticks — not down the road from central London’s infamous Old Street roundabout, edgy coffee shops and the hipsters of Shoreditch.
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