Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens

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Cyranoski, D. Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens. Nature 542, 399–400 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.21487

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