Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Michael C. Oldham shares his unconventional journey from advertising executive to computational neuroscientist and his ...

Facilities operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) are required to have extensive worker safety and health programs by regulation. We describe how Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has ...

A breakthrough in the understanding of how mammals create red blood cells could lead to opportunities for artificial blood to ...

Human Subjects Most Santa Clara University employees and students who plan to conduct research with human participants must obtain approval from the Santa Clara University Institutional Review Board ...

In today’s rapidly evolving clinical research landscape, one of the most critical—and often overlooked—threats to trial success is the enrollment of duplicate subjects and professional research ...

Advances in data science and artificial intelligence led the National Institutes of Health to announce an initiative in May to phase out animals in favor of “human-based” research methods like ...

As RCA, Mason serves as an ex-officio voting board member. Additional duties include developing policy and procedures, preparing for board meetings, corresponding with and providing support for ...

Human Subjects All research that involves the use of humans (e.g., survey, experimental, evaluation, biomedical research) must be approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), according to the ...

Must medical experiments with human subjects offer them a ‘favourable risk-benefit ratio’, that is, more expectation of benefit than harm or burden, if they are to be judged as ethically justified?