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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 07 2020, @09:52PM   Printer-friendly

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Zaosong Zheng, a graduate student at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, was arrested December 10 as he was attempting to fly from Boston to Beijing with stolen biological specimens in his luggage. He planned to take the vials of cancer cells to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital in China, according to The New York Times.

Prosecutors stated in court documents that the incident seems to be part of a larger effort to steal material from the lab where Zheng worked and bring it to China, the Times reports. Zheng's roommate, also a researcher, told FBI agents that two labmates of Zheng had succeeded in getting specimens to China. "[I]t appears to have been a coordinated crime, with likely involvement by the Chinese government," the prosecutors allege in the court filings.

Source: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/grad-student-arrested-trying-to-smuggle-specimens-to-china-66889


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday January 08 2020, @12:00AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 08 2020, @12:00AM (#940826) Journal

    India has been injected with the first dose [bbc.com] of [theguardian.com] "pacifier" [nytimes.com], more to follow.

    The treatment is hoped to keep them busy and reduce their development speed [wikipedia.org].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @12:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @12:59AM (#940854)

    You mean that helping people out isn't completely altruistic? *shock* *gasp*

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday January 08 2020, @01:33AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 08 2020, @01:33AM (#940861) Journal

      I mean that helping people out is secondary (and an unfortunate liability) to extracting as much money from them as possible _-yawn-_

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