Updated: 5:45 PM EST February 1, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio A former Nationwide Children s Researcher has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and must pay $2.6 million in restitution for conspiring to steal trade secrets.
Li Chen, 48, also conspired to commit wire fraud, according to U.S. District Attorney David DeVillers.
Chen admitted in her guilty plea in July 2020 to stealing scientific trade secrets related to exosomes and exosome isolation from Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute for her own personal financial gain.
Chen and her husband, co-conspirator Yu Zhou, 50, worked in separate medical research labs at the Research Institute for 10 years each. Chen worked from 2008-2018 while Zhou worked from 2007-2017.
“The greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China.”
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The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States.
Confronting this threat is the FBI’s top counterintelligence priority.
To be clear, the adversary is not the Chinese people or people of Chinese descent or heritage. The threat comes from the programs and policies pursued by an authoritarian government.
The Chinese government is employing tactics that seek to influence lawmakers and public opinion to achieve policies that are more favorable to China.
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A combination of genetic mutations may explain the higher incidence of and poorer outcomes from pediatric leukemia in Hispanic and Latino children, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. They said a novel therapeutic drug combination - as well as testing for these mutations - may help address the disparity.
Hispanic and Latino children are between 1.2 and 1.75 times more likely to develop B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the most common childhood cancer, than non-Hispanic and Latino children. They also have a 40% higher death rate than their counterparts after correcting for socioeconomic factors. Dr. Sinisa Dovat, a researcher and pediatric oncologist at Penn State Children s Hospital and Penn State Cancer Institute, partnered with Dr. Gordana Raca of Children s Hospital Los Angeles and Kimberly J. Payne of Loma Linda University to understand the biology behind this health disparity after prior research suggested that there may be an increase
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Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are now known to negatively control plasmid replication, according to Thomas Wood, Biotechnology Endowed Chair and professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering.
Plasmids, or extra-chromosomal bits of DNA, allow bacteria to evade antibiotics, making the antibiotics ineffective in halting a bacterial infection.
The presence or absence of plasmids impacts a bacterium s resistance to antibiotics and its ability to cause infection important points related to fighting bacterial infections, according to Wood. Each year, there are at least 700,000 deaths worldwide because of bacterial infections, a growing number that is projected to increase to 10 million by 2050, Wood said. And of course, the effectiveness of antibiotics is critical to healing from any type of bacterial infection.
In a nutshell, the CCP’s “Pizzagate-caliber, officially endorsed conspiracy theories,” to quote
The Daily Bell‘s Ben Bartee, claim that the Chinese virus did not originate at the
Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and that its release is not the fault of the communist Chinese regime.
Even though there is now overwhelming proof that the CCP not only knew about the virus but had a hand in its creation and release, the regime is rewriting the narrative with the help of social media and the mainstream media.
One of the alternative facts being spread by the CCP with the blessing of corporate media is the hilarious claim that an American cyclist from Ft. Detrick, Md., “imported” the virus into China, causing it to spread and eventually become a global “pandemic.”