University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow Yunqing Jian, 33, has been charged alongside Zunyong Liu, 34, for the sinister plot tied to the Chinese Communist Party.

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against two Chinese scholars accused of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen with agroterrorism potential into the United…

Zunyong Liu admitted to smuggling the fungus so he could conduct research on it at a University of Michigan laboratory where his girlfriend worked, said officials.