A federal judge has ordered the transfer of a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher facing deportation from Louisiana, where she was detained by immigration authorities, to Massachusetts,

A Harvard scientist detained in Louisiana over immigration concerns has now been charged with smuggling frog embryos and is being transferred to Massachusetts for trial.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist and researcher at Harvard University, was charged on Wednesday with one criminal count of smuggling goods into the country. The criminal charge represents