Illegal California Lab Run By Chinese Biotech Firm Contained Mice Engineered To Spread Covid-19

  The lab was run by Prestige BioTech, a Nevada-based company not registered to do business in California. The company’s president, Xiuquin Yao, told officials Prestige was operating at the site after absorbing the now-defunct Universal Meditech Inc, which was evicted from a lab facility in Fresno.“The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified,” the court documents state.