The U.S. Department of Education has opened a foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan after reports ...

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

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health into the US last summer in a wad ...

Washington ― Three House committee chairmen are investigating the University of Michigan's oversight of researchers from ...

Federal authorities arrest Chinese nationals for allegedly smuggling dangerous biological materials, including a crop-killing fungus that causes billions in agricultural losses ...

China is by far the gravest threat to national security, and measures such as President Donald Trump’s National Farm Security ...

Two Chinese researchers have been charged with smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" — fusarium graminearum — into the United States. Biological pathogens were discovered in Zunyong Liu ...

Fusarium graminearum is the most common cause of Fusarium head blight in North America and in many other parts of the world. ... the Chinese researchers now charged never applied for, nor were ...

Fusarium head blight, or FHB, is a devastating disease for staple crops like wheat, barley, maize and rice. The fungus’ toxins can lead to “vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in ...

Testing at an FBI laboratory discovered a sample containing the DNA sequence that “would allow a researcher to propagate live Fusarium graminearum,” a fungus that causes “head blight,” in ...

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health ...

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health ...