Second HSC researcher sends anonymous ‘Olivieri’ note

Isabelle Olivieri (1957–2016)

Isabelle Olivieri passed away on Saturday 10 December at 4 a.m. She passed away quietly after having fought not only with an admirable courage against her cancer but also against a paraneoplastic syndrome, which heavily handicapped her for the last years of her life. Isabelle would have passed 60 years in March 2017. She entered the Agronomic College (AgroParisTech) in Paris in 1977, specialize...

BFA sends proteins back

O bserving a step backward brought Jon Yewdell a big step forward in understanding protein traffi cking pathways in the cell. As a newly minted assistant professor at the Wistar Institute, Yewdell was examining where in the cell the infl uenza A virus (IAV) hemagglutin (HA) trimerized. Using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specifi c for monomers or trimers, he had found by 1985 that monomers local...

A Second Edition Note

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The Olivieri Symposium

No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact of the Olivieri and Healy affairs has caused serious self examination within the biomedical research community. The first part of the essay analyses these recent academic scandals. The two case stud...

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