{"id":6747,"date":"2022-08-21T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/fears-over-chinas-access-to-genetic-data-of-uk-citizens\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:38:03","slug":"fears-over-chinas-access-to-genetic-data-of-uk-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/fears-over-chinas-access-to-genetic-data-of-uk-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears over China\u2019s access to genetic data of UK citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biobank urged to review transfer of information for medical research<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Biobank said it had about 300 projects under which researchers in China were accessing \u201cdetailed genetic information\u201d or other health data on volunteers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/aug\/20\/fears-over-chinas-access-to-genetic-data-of-uk-citizens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/00d6ad14978d9637d080ca6b77984c923e6df795\/0_0_4753_2852\/master\/4753.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cdfc0af4a09838d055b92eccfd39b072\" title=\"Fears over China\u2019s access to genetic data of UK citizens\" \/>Biobank urged to review transfer of information for medical research<br \/>\nRising 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.<br \/>\nThe UK Biobank said it had about 300 projects under which researchers in China were accessing \u201cdetailed genetic information\u201d or other health data on volunteers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/fears-over-chinas-access-to-genetic-data-of-uk-citizens\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fears over China\u2019s access to genetic data of UK citizens<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}