The biological pathogen federal authorities accuse two Chinese nationals of smuggling into the U.S. was not likely an act of ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could ...

Two Chinese nationals with ties to the University of Michigan are scheduled to appear in federal court on Friday, marking the ...

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer ...

The Department of Defense on Tuesday announced the arrest of two Chinese researchers alleged to have smuggled a toxic fungus ...

The noxious fungus is known to cause "head blight," a disease that impacts barley, rice, wheat and maize and causes economic ...

Fusarium graminearum — the fungus federal prosecutors say a University of Michigan scholar and her boyfriend attempted to ...

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

Scientist from China charged with smuggling dangerous fungus into US. What to know about agroterrorism and biological ...

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

FBI has charged two Chinese researchers, Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, for smuggling a dangerous fungus into America. The ...

Testing at an FBI laboratory discovered a sample containing the DNA sequence that “would allow a researcher to propagate live Fusarium graminearum,” a fungus that causes “head blight,” in ...