Biomedical research is an area of law dampened by human rights abuses. While the protection of participants has certainly improved, clear breaches persist. I argue this is because the ethical ...

The commercial spaceflight industry is expanding opportunities for scientific research in space, but the industry needs clear ethical guidelines before human research is ready for liftoff. In a new ...

The first ethical framework for conducting human research on commercial spaceflight was proposed today in an article in Science by an international team that included Hastings Center president Vardit ...

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 ...

Pueblo Bonito, a massive stone great house in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico Andrew Kearns via Flickr Under CC BY-SA 2.0 The 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has brought fresh attention to ...

The mission of Pratt Institute’s Human Research Subjects Committee / Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to ensure quality research involving human subjects conducted under the auspices of the ...

A multisite research team has issued ethical and policy recommendations for first-in-human clinical trials involving the transplantation of pig kidneys into humans. The first trial has been approved ...

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.

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