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Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
Although fully organized patient-run trials are still few and far between, patients are taking a more active role in clinical research.
Agencies like the NSF and NIH are losing around 5 percent of their yearly budgets.
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The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
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