Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the spring of 1986, the scientific journal Cell published a paper that excited many in the scientific community. The authors, who included Nobel laureate David Baltimore, claimed that they had successfully transplanted genes that could produce "copycat" antibodies in mice. If true, their results offered new hope that cures for such immune-system disorders as AIDS and lupus might be found." "But Margot O'Toole, a post-doctoral fellow working in the lab of Thereza Imanishi-Kari, one of the Cell paper's coauthors, was troubled by some inconsistencies in the data. O'Toole decided to check Imanishi-Kari's research notes." "What O'Toole found in those notes, and what happened to her when she took her concerns to her superiors at MIT, would trigger a series of events that led to her own banishment from the scientific community, charges of fraud against Imanishi-Kari, several federal investigations and congressional hearings, and ultimately to the resignation of David Baltimore from the presidency of Rockefeller University." "There are no cardboard cutout heroes or villains here. We understand how O'Toole's coworkers might have found her self-righteous and abrasive, even as we abhor the treatment accorded her. Imanishi-Kari is rough-hewn, appealing, and, in a real way, a victim. David Baltimore, for all his haughty airs, is a man of awesome intellect and social conscience, brought low by his one great flaw."--BOOK JACKET.

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