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Zhao Jiuzhang, a renowned Chinese meteorologist, geophysicist, and space physicist is hailed as the ‘Father of Chinese Satellites.’ However, in the quiet of the night on October 26, 1968, this internationally acclaimed scientist took his own life at his home in Zhongguancun, Beijing. He was 61. Today, we delve into the life of Zhao Jiuzhang ...
After a Chinese scientist claimed to have edited genes of babies, authorities have halted all human gene-editing research in the country. Meanwhile, the scientist has apparently been missing for the past several days. The breakthrough and the backlash against the Chinese scientist In November last month, He Jiankui, a professor from the Southern University of Science ...