A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials has pleaded guilty. But 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. Jian didn’t have a permit for the material. She apologized but says her work was aimed at protecting crops, not harming anyone.