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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The increasingly adversarial relationship between the United States and China has raised national security concerns about Chinese penetration into key sectors of the U.S. economy, such as technology, manufacturing, and clean energy.

Now, some in Congress are raising alarms about China’s threat to another vital industry: biotechnology.

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers visited Massachusetts this week to call attention to that threat and call for strengthening U.S. life sciences companies, protecting their technologies, and safeguarding Americans’ genetic data from a Chinese biotech industry with close ties to the authoritarian state.

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