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Overall, financing from China’s official sector has totaled $302 billion between 2000 and 2023, according to AidData, a research lab at William & Mary university in Virginia.—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026 Eli Lilly said the Pennsylvania site will bring 850 jobs to the area, including engineers, scientists, operations personnel and lab technicians, as well as 2,000 construction jobs.—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
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On the institute’s two outdoor patios and throughout its labs and classrooms, kids and parents gathered around interactive stations featuring robotics demonstrations, silk-screen printing, 3D modeling and reptiles.—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 Snails are often slow to breed in the lab, but golden apple snails are an invasive species and thrive in that environment, per co-author Alice Accorsi, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis.—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lab