First-of-its-kind Incubator will support companies poised to deliver breakthrough applications in genomics and multiomics. Illumina, Inc., and Sequoia Capital China, a leading investment firm, today jointly announced the selection of the first two startup companies joining the Sequoia Capital China Intelligent Healthcare Genomics Incubator, Powered by Illumina. Located in Zhangjiang Cell Industrial Park, Shanghai, the incubator will serve as a …
Retail revolution in China: innovations that could change the way the world is shopping
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Semiconductors are an essential component of all electronic devices. Processor chips and other semiconductors are China’s biggest single import and consume around 70% of global production. In the future demand will just continue to increase because of the new technologies such as 5G and IoT. China has spent heavily over the past two decades to build up its chip industry, …
From PPE shortages to COVID-19 vaccine distribution, the supply chain has emerged as a determinant of health
Toilet paper. Hand sanitizer. Coffee. Over the past year, many people have probably spent more time thinking about their abilities to gather basic supplies than in other recent times. Supply chains are the networks involved in getting products to their final buyer or user, such as the toilet paper many of us were desperately tracking down in early 2020. As …
1000 days of injustice – recap on the case of Sabrina Meng after conclusion of her extradition hearings
When I’m writing this in August 26th 2021 it has been exactly 1000 days since the arrest of Huawei’s CFO Sabrina Meng. She was detained by the Canadian authorities on December 1st 2018 at Vancouver International Airport while she was having a stopover on the way to Mexico. She is facing possible extradition to the United States on fraud charges …