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A Gene-Editing Trial Killed a Six-Year-Old. The Only Official Penalty Was a $3,500 Fine.
Xinhua Hospital paid about 24,000 yuan in September 2025. The death it was fined over stayed out of the medical literature for another ten months, and out of the Nature paper entirely.
InvestigationsA Gene-Editing Trial Killed a 6-Year-Old. Nature Published the Science and Left Her Out of the Record.
Her parents paid $860,000 to base-edit their daughter's brain. She died of an immune reaction within a week, the trial's fatal outcome was never disclosed, and the Nature paper built on the same work never names her.
Drugs & FDAFor Years, a Foreign Factory Could Put the Active Ingredient in Your Medicine and Never Tell the FDA
The FDA led with a paperwork convenience for manufacturers. Buried underneath was the admission that it can't always trace where a drug's active ingredient was made, a blind spot Congress had to order it to close.
Drugs & FDAThe FDA's Fix for a $10 Billion Flood of Chinese Vapes Is a Form the Smugglers Will Ignore
Foreign manufacturers ship most of America's vapes and falsify the customs forms to do it. Washington's answer is to ask them to register with the agency they already evade.