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

Chinese bioterror suspects Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu have sparked national security fears after being arrested in Michigan ...

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 ...

The pathogen, found stashed in his backpack at the airport, can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice, and sicken livestock ...

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 ...

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.

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

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