TAG ARCHIVES FOR Genetics

3
Aug2018

This edition of Research Ethics Roundup covers African-American participation in DNA testing, difficulties recruiting participants for Alzheimer's trials, even when results are promising, the deaths of eleven babies born to mothers in a Dutch drug trial involving generic Viagra, and a call for research misconduct investigations across Britain by the United Kingdom’s House of Commons science and technology committee. Read more

15
Jun2017

From sequencing the human genome to discovering the underlying causes of many diseases, genetic research has the ability to profoundly influence the health of individuals and populations. However, despite genomics’ exceptional capacity to contribute to our understanding of disease, the nature of genetic research introduces many ethical considerations that may not arise in other types of biomedical research. Read more