A biological sample that a Chinese researcher was accused of smuggling into the United States and that prosecutors cast as a ...

If the pathogen was manipulated to become resistant to treatment or to spread more easily, it could have the potential to ...

The Chinese researcher accused of helping smuggle a potentially devastating crop-killing fungus into the US will remain in ...

Officials allege that Liu, who works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen, first lied but ...

Two Chinese researchers are accused of trying to smuggle in the fungus, which causes Fusarium head blight that can wipe out ...

A scientific journal describes the fungus as a "potential agroterrorism weapon" that can be used against crops and people.

Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with ...

A University of Michigan Chinese scholar will remain in custody after a federal judge rescheduled her detention hearing in a ...

Yunqing Jian appeared in federal court in Detroit Thursday, her detention hearing postponed to June 13 so she can hire a ...

Yunqing Jian, 33, allegedly tried to bring Fusarium graminearum into the U.S., a fungus that federal prosecutors allege could ...

Two scientists from China have been charged in Michigan in what the FBI says was an effort to bring a toxic fungus to the U.S ...

Two Chinese scientists have been charged with smuggling a fungus labeled a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into a U.S.