DETROIT (AP) — A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty Wednesday but was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months she already spent in custody.

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A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials has pleaded guilty

Yunqing Jian was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months she already spent in custody

Jian was a temporary researcher at a University of Michigan lab. She will be quickly deported

A judge calls it a “very strange” case. Jian was arrested in June and accused of conspiring with a boyfriend to study and nurse a toxic fungus at a campus lab

Yunqing Jian, who was a temporary researcher at a University of Michigan lab, will be released and quickly d

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