Lawmakers probe University of Michigan for handling biological smuggling claims linked to Chinese researchers.

The chairmen of three House committees have launched an investigation into the University of Michigan after three Chinese nationals were charged in two separate cases for allegedly smuggling ...

This month, three Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling biological agents into the United States. The attempts could be part of a biological weapons attack on America's farms and ranches.

Roundworm is not a biological weapon, but the fungus smuggled in the earlier incident could be used to damage crops, which would be agricultural bioterrorism.

Federal authorities charged Chengxuan Han with allegedly smuggling biological samples from China to the University of Michigan and lying to customs officials during inspection.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Surveilling a military exercise. Illegally voting in the 2024 election. Moving biological pathogens across U.S. borders. Since October 2024, four federal cases involving ...

Federal authorities arrested a Chinese researcher connected to the University of Michigan, marking the third such case in two weeks involving the alleged smuggling of biological materials from China.

A citizen of the People’s Republic of China was arrested and charged with smuggling concealed biological material into the U.S. from a university in Wuhan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern ...

A Chinese student was arrested for smuggling biological materials into the U.S. after a similar case involving a dangerous crop pathogen.

Authorities called this an “alarming pattern.” “The alleged smuggling of biological materials by this alien from a science and technology university in Wuhan, China – to be used at a University of ...

The challenge is, and will remain, to convince policymakers not to talk about biological weapons in isolation from how adversarial nations could use them to support national priorities and military ...