Baltimore Affair (redirected from Iminishi-Kari Case)

Baltimore Affair

A congressional investigation begun when Davd Baltimore, a Nobel Laureate—discoverer of reverse transcriptase—at MIT co-authored ‘Altered Repertoire of Endogenous Immunoglobulin Gene Expression in Transgenic Mice containing a Rearranged Mu Heavy Chain Gene’ (by T Iminishi-Kari et al in Cell in 1986), in which a post-graduate student, Margot O’Toole, alleged irregularities of data. Nothing came of the allegations