Republicans push for the strongest protections nationwide against Chinese influence while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's inaction ...

The Trump administration claims two students from China smuggled a rare fungus into the U.S. that could potentially be used ...

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

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

Two Chinese researchers have been charged with smuggling a fungus known to be a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the U.S ...

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

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

A University of Michigan scholar, Yunqing Jian ... However, experts like Professor Caitilyn Allen argue that the fungus is not classified as a terrorism agent and is already widespread in the ...

The affidavit doesn’t specify what Jian and Liu’s intentions were in studying the fungus ... Eastern District of Michigan. Liu, who is a researcher at Zhejiang University in China, tried ...

Liu later admitted that he planned to use the fungus for research at a laboratory at the University of Michigan, where Jian worked. Both Jian and Liu had researched the pathogen as university ...

The fungus causes head blight disease in wheat ... at the Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction Laboratory at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Prosecutors said Liu attempted to smuggle ...