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

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

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

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

A University of Michigan Chinese scholar was in court this week in connection with allegedly smuggling a potentially dangerous agricultural pathogen through Detroit Metro Airport last summer.

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 ...

Update: Harmful fungus? What to know about Chinese scholars who smuggled pathogen into U.S. DETROIT, MI - A Chinese scholar at University of Michigan and her boyfriend worked to smuggle a ...

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 ...

Authorities said it was in connection with work at the University of Michigan. Two Chinese nationals have been charged with allegedly smuggling into the U.S. a fungus called "Fusarium graminearum ...