A Japanese woman and her Chinese husband, who are accused of stealing genetic information from a Harvard Medical School lab, can be released on bail, a San Diego federal district judge ruled Thursday.
Kayoko Kinbara, 32, and Zhu Jiangyu, 30, were released the same evening on bail of $250,000. The couple were arrested June 19 by the FBI.
The two were arrested on charges of conspiracy, theft of trade secrets, interstate transportation of stolen property and trying to profit by collaborating with a Japanese company while they were postdoctoral fellows at the Harvard Medical School's cell biology department, where they worked until December 1999.
Kinbara and Zhu both have denied the charges.