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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

FBI chief Kash Patel announced the arrest of Yunqing Jian, a Chinese national, for allegedly smuggling the dangerous fungus ...

A detention hearing is taking place for a Chinese scientist who was caught smuggling a pathogen into the U.S. last year.