Senators Sound Alarm Over US Funding to Chinese Biotech Firm Over National Security Threats
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china...h-firm-over-national-security-threats-5422221A group of Republican senators are probing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over its partnership with Chinese biotech firm BGI,
The Chinese genomics giant, which has been blacklisted by both the Defense and Commerce Departments, has been working with the USDA since as early as 2018 on the Earth BioGenome Project, which aims to sequence the genomes of over 1.5 million species over a 10-year span to catalog the earth’s biodiversity.
Project SG100K: DNA of 100,000 Singaporeans to be mapped to identify new ways to prevent diseases
MAY 26, 2022https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ns-to-be-mapped-to-further-populations-health
On Thursday (May 26), Precise and genomics technology leader Illumina inked a partnership agreement to kick-start the SG100K effort.