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Jane Qiu

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Covers:  Life science, conservation, environment, geoscience, anthropology, development issues, and science policy.
Award-winning independent writer. Global perspective + 6yrs postdoc. Formerly: fellow @KSJatMIT, retainer @Nature, editor @NatRevNeurosci. @janeqiu.bsky.social
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Why disease outbreaks on Chinese fur farms are a serious risk to public health

Why disease outbreaks on Chinese fur farms are a serious risk to public health

Farming animals for fur is not only cruel but also provides an ideal environment for viruses to mix and cross…

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Bats might be the next bird flu wild card

Bats might be the next bird flu wild card

Finding that vampire bats along Peru's coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat specie…

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The Covid 'lab leak' theory isn't just a rightwing conspiracy - pretending that's the case is bad...

The Covid 'lab leak' theory isn't just a rightwing conspiracy - pretending that's the case is bad...

While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutt…

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Exclusive: Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic

Exclusive: Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists…

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How to Stop the Next Viral Pandemic

How to Stop the Next Viral Pandemic

A new combo of climate and habitat crises, along with immune system stress, is driving more bat-borne viruses…

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An animal source of mpox emerges - and it's a squirrel

An animal source of mpox emerges - and it's a squirrel

Researchers solve the mystery of a disease outbreak through long-term surveillance of wildlife in Africa. Res…

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Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy

Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy

Skip to Content Shi Zhengli has spent years at the Wuhan Institute of Virology researching coronaviruses that…

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Debate deepens over Wuhan wet market's role in kickstarting the pandemic

Debate deepens over Wuhan wet market's role in kickstarting the pandemic

Most experts believe that the COVID-19 pandemic arose when a virus jumped from an animal to a human, but it's…

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Journalistic Objectivity and the Origins of COVID-19: A Dispatch from the Front Lines

Journalistic Objectivity and the Origins of COVID-19: A Dispatch from the Front Lines

Who would have thought writing about science could be so intense and disorienting-with taxing effects on my a…

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How China's Bat Woman Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus

How China's Bat Woman Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus

Editor's Note (4/24/20): This article was originally published online on March 11. It has been updated for in…

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Hidden coronavirus infections could be seeding new outbreaks

Hidden coronavirus infections could be seeding new outbreaks

Scientists are rushing to estimate the proportion of people with mild or no symptoms who could be spreading t…

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This scientist now believes covid started in Wuhan's wet market. Here's why.

This scientist now believes covid started in Wuhan's wet market. Here's why.

Skip to Content How a veteran virologist found fresh evidence to back up the theory that covid jumped from an…

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'I can't wait to hold my kids again': Life inside Wuhan's quarantine

'I can't wait to hold my kids again': Life inside Wuhan's quarantine

Photograph by Getty Images The sweating and shivering arrived with Lunar New Year. Wang Zhen was watching fes…

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China's 'hardware capital' grinds to a halt amid coronavirus fears

China's 'hardware capital' grinds to a halt amid coronavirus fears

Yongkang is considered the "hardware capital of China." Buried in the heart of the country's eastern province…

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An AIDS therapy involving parasite injections was discredited. China is reviving it - for cancer

An AIDS therapy involving parasite injections was discredited. China is reviving it - for cancer

Injections of malaria parasites, a discredited AIDS treatment once promoted by the father of the Heimlich man…

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U.S. scientist played instrumental role in 'CRISPR babies' project - STAT

U.S. scientist played instrumental role in 'CRISPR babies' project - STAT

B EIJING - An American scientist at Rice University was far more involved in the widely condemned "CRISPR bab…

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Chinese government may have funded 'CRISPR babies' project - STAT

Chinese government may have funded 'CRISPR babies' project - STAT

EIJING - Three government institutions in China, including the nation's science ministry, may have funded the…

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China creating national medical ethics body to oversee clinical trials - STAT

China creating national medical ethics body to oversee clinical trials - STAT

EIJING - A powerful new national medical ethics committee, which will approve all clinical trials involving h…

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Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping

Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping

T HE ANNOUNCEMENT in November of the editing of the genomes of two embryos that are now baby girls, by He Jia…

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A maverick researcher claims to have created GM children

A maverick researcher claims to have created GM children

THE SECOND International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in Hong Kong this week, was supposed to be a fo…

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The affair of the gene-edited babies rumbles on

The affair of the gene-edited babies rumbles on

O N NOVEMBER 26TH He Jiankui, a DNA-sequencing expert at the Southern University of Science and Technology, i…

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Environment: Riding on the roof of the world

Environment: Riding on the roof of the world

China's railway to Tibet is an engineering marvel or an environmental menace - or perhaps both. Jane Qiu take…

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China: The third pole

China: The third pole

Published online 23 July 2008 | Nature 454, 393-396 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454393a News Feature Climate change …

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Trouble in Tibet

Trouble in Tibet

Kevin Frayer/Getty In the northern reaches of the Tibetan Plateau, dozens of yaks graze on grasslands that lo…

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