Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The United States this week launched an attack against BGI, a group of Chinese scientists who rose from nowhere at extraordinary speed to become the world leaders in genomics.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill to restrict business with BGI on the grounds that they are a danger to US National Security—being Chinese.

The rise of this firm is an amazing story worth knowing about.