China has been reopened. The world’s second largest economy, which plays an important role in accelerating domestic economic recovery as well as boosting global growth, has now completely removed mandatory quarantine and international flight limitations.

Healthcare and life science firms Pierian, Seven Bridges, and UgenTec have been acquired by investment fund Summa Equity for an undisclosed amount and merged to form a new precision medicine company, Velsera.

Being committed to continued advances in improving human health, SCHOTT has opened a new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand the development and manufacturing of diagnostics and life science consumables.

Precision Medicine Asia and the National Cancer Center Hospital East in Japan are building a lung cancer clinicopathological genomic database and screening infrastructure that spans seven countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the groups said Wednesday.

DNAscope, a germline variant-calling pipeline from San Jose-based analytics firm Sentieon, achieved superior SNP and indel accuracy as compared to other standard datasets, according to a recent preprint from the company.

A new study published in Science Advances outlines the most comprehensive data on the effects of COVID-19 vaccines on menstrual cycles to date.

In 2021, the total number of visits to medical and health institutions in nationwide was 8.47 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.4%. The average citizen visits medical and health institutions 6 times a year.

Twist Bioscience and DNAnexus said on Wednesday that they are collaborating on data analysis to help customers develop next-generation sequencing-based diagnostics.

On May 28, the website of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published the "General Information on Adverse Reaction Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccine Vaccination" jointly published by the center and the National Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center.

The average annual growth rate from 2010 to 2020 is 0.53%, which is 0.04 percentage points lower than the 0.57% in 2000-2010.