The top Republican and the Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are calling on the Biden administration to add seven Chinese biotech firms to a Pentagon list of “Chinese military companies.” In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on March 29, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. […]
Transhumanism, a movement making efforts to transcend our humanity. It sounds like it could be a good thing, in theory. But in practice, what could it entail? There’s biomedical augmentation, everything from artificial limbs to gene manipulation, in order to cure diseases and crippling conditions, and humanity’s pain and suffering—which is at times self inflicted. […]
Nearly two dozen mail-in ballots were found near a highway in Santa Cruz. Postal inspectors are investigating the situation. New filings in the Paul Pelosi attack show changes in some key details surrounding who opened the door that night. A police chief was laid to rest in Los Angeles. Members of the community paid their […]
The U.S. fentanyl crisis is being helped along by a Chinese city. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to boost biotechnology. It’s an effort to compete with China, but Beijing is taking action, too. California is banning foreign governments and companies from buying U.S. farmland. Books about sheep and wolves put a group of […]
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order meant to boost biotech production and research in the United States, with a senior administration official saying that the presidential action was prompted in part by aggressive investment in the sector by China, posing a risk to U.S. competitiveness. The White House announced on Sept. 12 that […]
The United States on Dec. 16 placed trade and investment restrictions on dozens of Chinese entities over their role in weaponizing biotechnology and other U.S. innovations to bolster the Chinese military and to further its human rights abuses. Among the 34 Chinese entities targeted was the Academy of Military Medical Sciences—China’s top medical research institute […]
Shares of China’s biotechnology firms plunged on Dec. 15 amid concerns that the Biden administration would put an investment and export ban on more Chinese companies. The decline was led by WuXi Biologics, which crashed nearly 20 percent on Wednesday, while Sino Biopharmaceutical dropped 5 percent. The Hang Seng Healthcare Index was down 7.6 percent […]
BIO International Convention is the largest global annual event for the biotechnology industry. This year Philadelphia is hosting the convention from June 3rd to 6th, and Taiwan is making their presence felt. Tsung-Tsong Wu, Minister without Portfolio from Taiwan’s Executive Yuan, led a delegation from Taiwan. The delegation was made up of more than 210 […]
SYDNEY, Australia—Australian biotech group Innate Immunotherapeutics Limited <IIL.AX> said on Thursday it was not under investigation in an insider trading case involving Republican U.S. congressman Christopher Collins. In a statement, the company said it had cooperated fully with requests for information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “The Company and its directors/officers (excepting […]
