On December 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (The “NDAA”). Among its provisions, the NDAA includes an updated version of the BIOSECURE Act (the “Act”)....more
1/15/2026
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The BIOSECURE Act (“the Act”), which received bipartisan support in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in 2024 but was not ultimately passed into law, has re-emerged in this session of Congress, but with...more
9/4/2025
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Amid increasing economic tensions with the United States, China recently announced that it would ban Illumina, a U.S.-based company and the world’s leading producer of gene-sequencing machines, from importing its gene...more