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How biomaterials will support China’s ageing population

Materials researchers are finding innovative ways to improve the country’s health-care system.
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  1. Sarah O’Meara

    1. Sarah O’Meara is a freelance science writer in London.

Chunying Chen remembers the first nanomedicine conference held in China, which took place in 2015. “It was small. Just 500 people,” she says. “Three years later, it had almost tripled in size.”

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00888-2

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  • Correction 27 March 2019: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that Zhen Gu graduated in 2010.

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