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Since 1997, researchers have been able to quantum teleport photons with a major record being set by researchers at the  University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai. In 2010, that team successfully teleported a photon over 16km. Now that same team has released new findings, in which they claim to have teleported photons nearly 100km, or over 60 miles.

Now, quantum teleportation isn’t quite the same thing as the teleportation in Star Trek. When researchers teleport a photon, they aren’t teleporting the actual photon, but rather the information contained in it through quantum entanglement. In essence, the second photon at the end of the teleport becomes the first one – or at least, it becomes an identical qubit of information. So the information is exchanged without actually travelling through the intervening distance.

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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. will invest $65 million into China Cord BloodCorp, the country’s largest operator of services for umbilical cord blood that is rich in stem cells, to capitalize on China’s fast-growing health-care services industry.

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2009, CCBC was the first licensed cord-blood banking operator in China, providing collection, testing, processing and storage services. CCBC runs the largest cord-blood banking network in China in terms of geographical coverage, with exclusive licenses to service Beijing, Guangdong Province and Zhejiang Province. This area covers more than 180 million people and has 1.9 million new births annually.

Cord blood contains large quantities of stem cells that, if stored properly, can later be used to treat life-threatening diseases. The applications of cord-blood stem cells are expanding, and can be used to treat more than 80 types of diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and inherited immune system disorders.

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The US, Europe and Japan have lodged a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China’s export of rare earths. The US, EU, and Japan argue that by setting export restrictions such as quotas and taxes, China artificially lowers domestic prices and boosts domestic supply, thus granting local manufacturers an advantage against foreign competition. As a result, Chinese companies have access to more and cheaper rare earth materials, and foreign firms have to grapple with smaller and more expensive supplies.

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