Reports on the federal Office of Research Integrity's (ORI) issuance of a long-delayed report concluding that immunologist Thereza Imanishi-Kari fabricated data in a 1986 paper on immune function in mice that she co-authored with Nobel prizewinner David Baltimore and four other researchers. Cover-up of allegations with additional fabrications; Implications of case for Imanishi-Kari's career and the ORI.
Reports on the hearing of the scientific misconduct case filed against Thereza Imanishi-Kari by the Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS) Office of Research Integrity (ORI) for falsifying and fabricating data for a 1986 paper in `Cell.' Conclusion made by the ORI after a two-year investigation; Imanishi-Kari's appeal of the ORI decision; Expectations for a ruling to be made by the end of 1995.