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> Given the rapidity with which the Harvard chemical-biologist was arrested after we received a sample and sequenced it I'd love to read more. Do you have a li

> Given the rapidity with which the Harvard chemical-biologist was arrested after we received a sample and sequenced it I'd love to read more. Do you have a link?

ci5er 7y ago
I did and so much was going on (US politics-wise, and Brexit-wise), I was kind of sloppier than I generally am. I will try to recover and post within a day. EDIT: Because it was me hypothecating (generating hypotheses), it will be more than one link that may turn out to be unrelated.
- aaron_m04 7y ago
  Thanks!
  - ci5er 7y ago
    If I forget, within 48 hours please bump me - I do have it around here somewhere! :-) Besides, we're moving into a weekend; This is the time for clearing off decks.
SyneRyder 7y ago
I think this might be the official US Justice Department link. It's long, but worth reading the whole thing since it is primary source and not some newspaper summary: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-... "The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China." ... "Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security."
- selimthegrim 7y ago
  Viruses are not Lieber’s field.
ci5er 7y ago
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-professor-charged-with-hiding-china-ties https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-professor-char...

> Given the rapidity with which the Harvard chemical-biologist was arrested after we received a sample and sequenced it I'd love to read more. Do you have a link?

ci5er 7y ago

I did and so much was going on (US politics-wise, and Brexit-wise), I was kind of sloppier than I generally am. I will try to recover and post within a day. EDIT: Because it was me hypothecating (generating hypotheses), it will be more than one link that may turn out to be unrelated.

aaron_m04 7y ago
Thanks!
- ci5er 7y ago
  If I forget, within 48 hours please bump me - I do have it around here somewhere! :-) Besides, we're moving into a weekend; This is the time for clearing off decks.

SyneRyder 7y ago

I think this might be the official US Justice Department link. It's long, but worth reading the whole thing since it is primary source and not some newspaper summary: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-... "The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China." ... "Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security."

selimthegrim 7y ago
Viruses are not Lieber’s field.

ci5er 7y ago

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-professor-charged-with-hiding-china-ties https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-professor-char...