Chinese Scholar Gets Time Served For Smuggling E. Coli DNA

By Gina Kim ( April 10, 2026, 5:58 PM EDT) -- A Chinese postdoctoral research associate at Indiana University was sentenced to time served on Wednesday by an Indiana federal judge, spending more than four months in custody on smuggling charges for shipping an E. coli sample from China into the U.S. and lying about it when questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. ...

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