American biologist David Baltimore, awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1975, at the age of 37 but his career was tarnished by an unjust category of fraud, died on Saturday at 87, many US media reported today. Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) David Baltimore is considered a great form of molecular biology. His Nobel was given for his research on retroviruses, such as HIV, and mainly for the discovery of a viral enzyme explaining how to copy genetic information to cells. This discovery has been crucial to the development of gene therapies. His career and reputation were in danger in 1986, when he was involved in a case of scientific fraud. He was never directly accused, but a Japanese associate with whom he had a study was accused by a data falsification researcher in an immune experiment. Baltimor was forced many times, in 1988 and 1989, to answer for […]
Source: News Beast
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