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 ...

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

Javed Ali, a counter-terrorism expert at the University of Michigan, says that based on information from the official ...

A Chinese national tried to enter the U.S. in July 2024 carrying a pathogen capable of attacking wheat, barley, maize and ...

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

The fungus, Fusarium graminearum, is considered capable of "agroterrorism" and was allegedly smuggled into the country by two Chinese nationals studying at the University of Michigan. Hall ...

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 ...