A scientist has resigned from Iowa State University after admitting he made up claims rabbit blood could end the AIDS epidemic, in order to claims millions of dollars in grants. Assistant professor of biomedical sciences Dr Dong-Pyou Han spiked a clinical test sample with healthy human blood to make it appear that the rabbit medicine produced disease-fighting antibodies. The US$19 million in grants he received included cash from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH nabbed the scientist in the lie when it checked the rabbit serum at a lab and found the human antibodies. It followed suspicions when other researchers could not duplicate Dr Han’s results.
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First published: Sunday, 29th December 2013 - 12:25pm