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‘I lost two years of my life’: US scientist falsely accused of hiding ties to China speaks out

Acquitted nanotechnology researcher Anming Hu returns to his lab after two years — and is still grappling with the aftershocks of his ordeal.
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Portrait of Associate Professor Anming Hu at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Anming Hu is back at work but fears his time away from the lab will be ‘catastrophic’ for his career. Credit: Jessica Tezak for Nature

Anming Hu walked back into his laboratory at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, on 1 February for the first time in about two years to find it stripped of research equipment. Gone were the delicate lasers, lenses and voltage metres — worth tens of thousands of dollars — that he and his students had used to conduct their studies.

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Nature 603, 371-372 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00528-2

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