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 ...

The ethical concerns about risks that arise during human subjects research can also be relevant to other activities, such as methods classes and program evaluations. The following is a compilation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

New guidelines are needed to assure that research on human subjects performed on commercial spaceflights is conducted ethically, a panel of experts say in a commentary appearing in the September 28 ...

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: An International Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 (October 2020), pp. 279-291 (13 pages) Tribal Institutional Review Boards (TIRBs) in the United States ...

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 ...