{
  "id": 14901554,
  "title": "Pioneering heart stem cell expert Li Renke dies at 65 during a Chinese conference",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/pioneering-heart-stem-cell-expert-li-renke-dies-at-65-during-a-14901554",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-16T07:27:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3371077/pioneering-heart-stem-cell-expert-li-renke-dies-65-during-chinese-conference"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Li Renke, a visionary cardiovascular scientist who applied engineering principles to the human heart and developed conductive biomaterials to repair tissue damaged by heart attacks, died while attending an academic conference in the Chinese city of Xian earlier this month. He was 65. His death on October 10 was announced by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), where he…",
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      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Pioneering heart stem cell expert Li Renke dies at 65 during a Chinese conference",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/pioneering-heart-stem-cell-expert-li-renke-dies-at-65-during-a",
        "published": "2026-10-16T07:27:28.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}