Data from 500,000 listed on Alibaba's e-commerce platforms

Medical information of 500,000 participants of the UK's health data project, UK Biobank, were offered for sale online in China, the government has confirmed.

“It is among the largest studies for imaging, protein biomarkers, genomics and more,” he said. “But not only that – it links all this together for investigation. The depth of research enabled by this ...