In Tang’s opinion, researchers who are found guilty of lab safety violations should be sanctioned, with their institution’s health and safety office being the first authority to take action.

China’s struggles with lab safety carry danger of another pandemic China has poured billions of dollars into lab construction and genetic engineering in its bid to become a science superpower ...

But now, a working paper published in June by the National Bureau of Economic Research makes it clear: lab safety may change how researchers do science, but it doesn’t affect how much they’ll ...