Investigated by the FBI, are they communist spies out to harm the US or nerdy scientists involved in harmless research?
Investigated by the FBI, are they communist spies out to harm the US or nerdy scientists involved in harmless research?
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The toxic fungus may be a legitimate research subject, but they have handed Washington the perfect excuse to hype up the China…
University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow Yunqing Jian, 33, has been charged alongside Zunyong Liu, 34, for the sinister plot…
Zunyong Liu admitted to smuggling the fungus so he could conduct research on it at a University of Michigan laboratory where his…
Charges against Jian Yunqing and Liu Zunyong include conspiracy, smuggling ‘dangerous biological pathogen’ into US and visa fraud.
Arrest comes amid row between Trump and his supporters over the espionage risk posed by students from China
Experts say the fungus Fusarium graminearum is more of a pest than ‘a dangerous biological pathogen’, as FBI director Kash Patel…
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