Attorneys have agreed to postpone a preliminary examination in U.S. District Court until August while a plea deal is being ...

Climate change may be putting millions more people at risk from an infection-causing fungi, which is likely spreading due to ...

SAN ANTONIO - Texas leaders are warning farmers and families about a harmful fungus that could hurt the food we eat.It’s ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...

US Congress is investigating the University of Michigan. The probe focuses on research ties to Chinese nationals. These ...

Fungicides used in agriculture have been linked to an increase in resistance to antifungal drugs in both humans and animals.

One of the Chinese citizens worked at a University of Michigan lab. Her boyfriend smuggled in the biological pathogen, according to court records.

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors accused two Chinese scientists of smuggling into the United States a "dangerous" fungus that causes a disease in crops so that one of them could research the ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Lingering questions surround federal criminal charges against a Chinese scholar at University of Michigan and her boyfriend, who federal officials say worked to smuggle a ...

Federal officials say the noxious fungus causes "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize and rice. The fungus is responsible for large economic losses worldwide and its toxins can cause ...