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

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 ...

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

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

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

As per the official statements released, both Chinese nationals had close ties with the Chinese Communist Party.

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

"I don't know the specific situation, but I would like to emphasize that the Chinese government has always required overseas ...

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

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