Iranian biologists face US trial for trying to take proteins out of the country

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01901-4

by pseudolus • 7 years ago

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pseudolus• 7 years ago

> One of the defendants, Masoud Soleimani, a prominent stem-cell researcher at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, has spent eight months in an Atlanta jail.

Utterly and positively shameful. It's the kind of conduct you'd expect from the Iranian Government, not the "shining beacon unto other nations".

java-man• 7 years ago

It's only going to get worse, I am afraid.

deepVoid• 7 years ago

Iranian scientists are not alone. Many Chinese-born scientists are targeted as well. Scientific research has been politicized to another level lately.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/technology/sherry-chen-na...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-i...

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/chinese-scientists-fbi-nih...

Iranian biologists face US trial for trying to take proteins out of the country

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