Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could ...

Scientist from China charged with smuggling dangerous fungus into US. What to know about agroterrorism and biological ...

Chengxuan Han, of the People's Republic of China, is charged with smuggling goods into the U.S. and making false statements.

The biological pathogen federal authorities accuse two Chinese nationals of smuggling into the U.S. was not likely an act of ...

The case marks the third time in less than two weeks that a Chinese national with ties to the university has been charged ...

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

Two Chinese researchers were charged with attempting to smuggle a deadly fungus known as Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. One of the researchers who works at the University of Michigan laboratory ...

Two Chinese researchers face charges for smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a dangerous fungus, into the U.S., raising national ...

That said, it’s unclear why the Chinese researchers might have wanted to bring that strain of Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. and why they didn’t fill out the proper paperwork to do so.

The USDA requires a permit for the importation of Fusarium graminearum. According to records maintained by the USDA, the Chinese researchers now charged never applied for, nor were issued ...