The pathogen is known as Fusarium graminearum, which can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people ...

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

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.

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

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

Two Chinese nationals face charges for attempting to smuggle a crop-damaging fungus into the US, raising concerns about ...

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

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

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

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

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