life sciences

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Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part II-Birth, Adolescence, and Adulthood

The most recent and prominent United States (US) attempt to limit cooperation with Chinese life science businesses has stalled, but is hardly dead.

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Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part I: Poisoning WuXi AppTec and its Kin

In January 2024, Congressman Mike Gallagher, the Chair of the United States (US) House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the “Biosecure Act,” which prohibits the US government (USG) from “procuring or obtaining biotechnology equipment or services produced or provided by a biotechnology company of concern,” participating in a c