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CALTECH, UNLIKE A NUMBER OF OTHER PREmier universities, had not been hit with a single case of research fraud--until last year. But when trouble came, it came in spades. Last [...]

It is every scientist's nightmare: An editor calls saying he needs to talk urgently about a paper you've submitted. A reviewer thinks there's something weird in the data. It can't [...]

The Dingell Probe Finally Goes Public Congressman John Dingell did his level best to pillory Nobel laureate David Baltimore last week. His principal strategem: to catch Thereza Imanishi-Kari at fraud [...]

'Dangerous' Liaisons in Cell Biology ON 2 JUNE, the journal Cell published some astonishing research results, together with an accompanying editorial, that have touched off a spirited debate among molecular [...]

Those few words in the 25 January issue of Cell made painfully public what many immunologists have known for months: there has been trouble in the lab of Caltech biologist [...]

After 'a decade in limbo,' as Nobelist and co-author David Baltimore put it last week, immunologist Thereza Imanishi-Kari has been cleared of 19 charges that she committed scientific misconduct in [...]

Of the recent controversies at NIH's Office of Scientific Integrity, few have been as murky as the flap over University of Chicago immunologist Ursula Storb. Early this summer, Storb was [...]

Until the past few weeks, a bitter and protracted dispute between France and the United States over who should receive credit - and commercial reward - for discovering the AIDS [...]

A research chief could hardly ask for a happier prospect than the one that faces Walter Massey, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), as he approaches the end of [...]

Just as the main investigation of AIDS researcher Robert Gallo appears to be quietly pulling into the station - only a few years behind schedule - Representative John Dingell (D-MI) [...]

Whose Notes Are They? TUESDAY, 9 May. It was a very different John Dingell on Day Two of hearings by the House subcommittee on oversight and investigations on scientific conduct. [...]

A bizarre twist has occurred in the long-running dispute between National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy and Representative John Dingell (D-MI) over the operation of NIH's Office of Scientific [...]

Reaction to proposed changes in misconduct investigations suggests just how difficult it could be to fix a system that has been widely criticized NIH's OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY (OSI), born [...]

TO A VISITOR, THE HOME OF NIH's OFFICE of Scientific Integrity (OSI) looks as if it's been on the receiving end of Hurricane Bob. Inside the office, which is identified [...]

The office charged with investigating scientific misconduct within the Public Health Service has finally completed its long-awaited draft report on National Cancer Institute (NCI) researcher Robert C. Gallo and his [...]

SUZANNE HADLEY, WHO FOR SEVERAL YEARS has supervised NIH's investigations of intramural AIDS researcher Robert Gallo and Tufts immunologist Thereza Imanishi-Kari, has been taken off these two prominent cases. Office [...]