Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

In science, studying human experiences typically requires time, money and—of course—human participants. But as large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 have grown more sophisticated, some in the ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Many drug trials are vetted by companies with ties to the drugmakers, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and ...

All University and affiliate personnel involved in the conduct and oversight of human research must abide by the fundamental principles set forth in the Belmont Report. The Belmont Report, published ...

Leaders across higher education and industry must ensure that their teams and partners think critically about anonymization, ...

Welcome to CU Boulder's Institutional Review Board (IRB) website. Here, you will find everything you need to submit a human subjects research study for ethical review.

Eberts serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit 1Day Sooner. Fisher is a professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina Center for Bioethics. For decades, the consensus ...

Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly introduced a regulation that may be one of the most important shifts in how non-profit and for-profit U.S. institutions, both at ...

The primary Federal regulations for protection of human research subjects (45CFR46) can be found on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website, on the page for the Office for Human ...

When compensating human research subjects/participants, there are certain guidelines that need to be followed in regard to obtaining and tracking payments. Accounts payable lists policies related to ...