Fears over China’s access to genetic data of UK citizens
by Shanti Das and Vincent Ni from Technology | The Guardian on (#62QEF)
Biobank urged to review transfer of information for medical research
Rising political and security tensions between Beijing and the west have prompted calls for a review of the transfer of genetic data to China from a biomedical database containing the DNA of half a million UK citizens.
The UK Biobank said it had about 300 projects under which researchers in China were accessing detailed genetic information" or other health data on volunteers.
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