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 ...

U.S. authorities said Monday that they had arrested a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological material into the ...

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

This is the second case revealed in about a week involving a Chinese academic smuggling biological material into the U.S. A ...

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 ...

A criminal complaint alleges the Chinese researchers planned to study the fungus at a University of Michigan lab last summer.

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 ...