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

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

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

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

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.

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

Javed Ali, a counter-terrorism expert at the University of Michigan, says that based on information from the official ...

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

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that they planned to study at a University of ...

The biological pathogen researched by a University of Michigan scholar from China can cause devasting diseases in crops, ...

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