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Activists are calling for the University of Michigan to defend Chinese academics who were arrested earlier this year over accusations they illegally smuggled goods into the U.S. A small group gathered ...
“These individuals exploited their access to laboratory facilities at a local university to engage in the smuggling of biological pathogens, an act that posed an imminent threat to public safety.
Jian and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, are accused of smuggling a “dangerous biological pathogen” called fusarium graminearum into the United States to study.
The U.S. Department of Education says it's investigating five American universities, including two in Michigan, for what it called possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, saying ...
Can artificial reefs in Lake Michigan slow erosion and boost fish population? Researchers aim to find out by Lily Carey ...
Anticipation of a virtual infectious pathogen is enough to prompt real biological defenses by Justin Jackson, Phys.org edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...
Glandon and her team of biologists and geologists at the Lake Michigan Biological Station, a research station in Zion run by the University of Illinois, are studying the rubble ridges as part of a ...
This is about protecting our universities, our businesses, our national labs and our future from foreign regimes that seek to ...
Andrew Pogosyan, a Madison man, pleaded guilty to smuggling scientific laboratory equipment to Russia, violating sanctions and threatening US national security.
In June, a University of Michigan scholar from China was arrested in relation to charges she tried to smuggle a biological pathogen into the U.S., which was characterized as a potential ...
MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin business owner pleaded guilty on Tuesday for illegally exporting scientific equipment to companies in Russia.