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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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