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 ...

Charges against Jian Yunqing and Liu Zunyong include conspiracy, smuggling ‘dangerous biological pathogen’ into US and visa ...

The pathogen, found stashed in his backpack at the airport, can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice, and sicken livestock ...

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

Yunqing Jian's detention hearing was moved to June 13 in U.S. District Court in Detroit so she can retain a private attorney.

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

Two Chinese researchers were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the U.S.

Zunyong Liu was coming to the U.S. to visit his girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, a researcher at the University of Michigan, where ...

A U-M researcher was back in federal court Thursday, days after being criminally charged over smuggling what the FBI says is ...

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

A Michigan court has scheduled a bail hearing on Thursday for a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological samples ...