A talented cancer scientist is using her expertise to support the national effort to tackle Covid-19.Jo Birch from Balfron, a researcher at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute in Glasgow, is one of around 100 scientist volunteers carrying out Covid-19 testing in Glasgow.The Beatson’s research lab is closed because of the pandemic.But mum-of-two Jo started work at the Glasgow Lighthouse Laboratory on April 23, just two days after receiving notice she had been accepted as a volunteer.The laboratory at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus is part of the biggest network of diagnostic testing facilities in British history alongside other Lighthouse Lab sites in Milton Keynes and Alderley Park, near Manchester.Jo, 39, said: “It’s.