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EXCLUSIVE: Senators Sound Alarm Over US Funding to Chinese Biotech Firm Over National Security Threats
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 more than 1.5 million species over a 10-year span to catalog the earth’s biodiversity.
