A Chinese national and former Indiana University postdoctoral researcher has pleaded guilty to secretly smuggling bacteria into the United States by concealing them inside a shipment falsely labeled as women’s underwear, federal prosecutors said. Youhuang Xiang, 32, admitted that samples of E. coli bacterial DNA were hidden inside a package shipped from China to his Bloomington, Indiana, residence in March 2024, a press release issued on Friday from the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) said. The

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