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 ...

In science, ethical guidelines ensure that research takes place in a way that respects public trust and is conducted ...

A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made it the first country to ban medical and scientific experimentation on animals. It failed to pass in February 2022, with only 21 percent of voters in ...

Before human research is conducted during commercial spaceflights, it should be 'ethically cleared to launch,' according to a global team of scientists, health policy experts and commercial ...

A new report provides an overview of the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)—the creation of lab-grown eggs and sperm. We are in the midst of Industry 4.0, ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. One thing that has driven companies’ decisions from the start ...

There are many clear guidelines concerning ‘therapeutic research’ which has direct health benefits for participants (eg, testing a vaccine). However, guidelines are more ambiguous for nontherapeutic ...

Recently, as concerns research involving human participants, authors have begun promoting the return of all peer reviewed results whether negative or positive. 1 More specifically, some maintain the ...

With genome maps adding new appreciation of the very close relationship between humans and the great apes, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have proposed a series of ethical and ...

ARETTA: Assessing Response to Neoadjuvant Taxotere and Subcutaneous Trastuzumab in Nigerian Women With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: A Study Protocol Clinical trials research involving human ...