Investigators revealed that the couple had previously studied the fungus in China, raising alarms over potential biosecurity ...

Days after two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the United States, America's top ...

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

Jian, 33, and Liu, 34, are accused of importing Fusarium graminearum, a fungus that causes “head blight”—a disease that ...

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.

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

A Chinese researcher in Michigan and her boyfriend have been charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that “can cause ...

Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, Chinese nationals, face federal charges in the US for allegedly smuggling Fusarium graminearum, ...

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

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

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