The letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the U.S.

Lawmakers probe University of Michigan for handling biological smuggling claims linked to Chinese researchers.

One of the Chinese citizens worked at a University of Michigan lab; her boyfriend smuggled in the biological pathogen, according to court records.

DETROIT, MI - Prosecutors and defense attorneys are negotiating a plea deal for the Chinese scholar at University of Michigan accused of smuggling a harmful fungus into the United States.

He later admitted to smuggling the fungus to research it at a laboratory at the University of Michigan, where Jian worked and he previously worked.

A University of Michigan scholar, Yunqing Jian, and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, face charges for allegedly attempting to smuggle Fusarium graminearum, a potentially dangerous agricultural pathogen ...

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors accused two Chinese scientists of smuggling into the United States a "dangerous" fungus that causes a disease in crops so that one of them could research the pathogen at ...