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I am a journalist covering the politics of science and medicine in China and the region.

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Did U.S. scrutiny of foreign research drive prominent geneticist to decline authorship?

Did U.S. scrutiny of foreign research drive prominent geneticist to decline authorship?

Questions are swirling about what role a suite of new and proposed U.S. national security rules may have play…

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Trump’s war with Iran is threatening medical supply chains, experts warn

Trump’s war with Iran is threatening medical supply chains, experts warn

Experts are warning of global transport bottlenecks, higher operational costs, and disruptions to raw materia…

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Chinese government launches investigation after 233 children poisoned with lead

Chinese government launches investigation after 233 children poisoned with lead

China’s central government has intervened after hundreds of cases of lead poisoning at a private nursery in t…

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Chinese HIV clinics stop uploading test results to shared health record after patients are refuse...

Chinese HIV clinics stop uploading test results to shared health record after patients are refuse...

Health officials overseeing the city of Wuhan in China have been forced to stop HIV clinics from uploading re…

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'It's fraud': con artists tap booming demand for China medical supplies

'It's fraud': con artists tap booming demand for China medical supplies

Desperate buyers are forking out huge sums for medical supplies from China to help fight the coronavirus pand…

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How early signs of the coronavirus were spotted, spread and throttled in China

How early signs of the coronavirus were spotted, spread and throttled in China

The new coronavirus that has claimed nearly 3,000 lives and spread to more than 50 countries was sequenced in…

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Did U.S. scrutiny of foreign research drive prominent geneticist to decline authorship?

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By Jeffrey Brainard Verified, Flynn Murphy Verified
| Science Magazine Verified
1.0x 00:00 05:05 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback Questions are swirling about why five researchers, including Harvard University geneticist George Church, made an eleventh-hour decision to withdraw from the author list on a commentary paper published on 9 July in Nature Methods.
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Obesity versus China: how Ozempic is complicating the world’s largest weight loss campaign

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By Flynn Murphy Verified
| The BMJ Verified
China has mounted the world’s largest weight loss campaign, tapping education, exercise, and a host of drugs old and new, reports Flynn Murphy Hunger defined 20th century China. War, maladministration, and natural crises conspired to snatch food from people’s mouths.
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China cracks down on microplastics and forever chemicals with new law

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By Flynn Murphy Verified
| The BMJ Verified
China is deepening a crackdown on perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics with a new environmental law that will come into effect on 15 August.1 The Environmental and Ecological Code, adopted on 12 March, consolidates dozens of existing environmental statutes covering air, water, and soil pollution; ecological conservation; development; and climate change.2 Article 645 of the new code will establish a prevention, monitoring, and control system for emerging...
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