Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.
Although fully organized patient-run trials are still few and far between, patients are taking a more active role in clinical research.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Uranium dating of coral tools used by the earliest settlers of the South Pacific island kingdom of Tonga offers unprecedented precision in reconstructing their history.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Using a SMART card containing your genetic information and medical history, you could one day soon be diagnosed and treated for all kinds of diseases at an ATM-style kiosk.