informed consent

Inserting human “mini-brains” into rodents has the potential to broaden scientists’ understanding of neurological disease, but raises quandaries about consciousness.

Both higher education and industry associations were advocating for a later implementation date for the Common Rule, which governs human studies.

Is the deep uncertainty surrounding fundamental legal and ethical norms putting biobanks in a precarious position? 

Two reports raise concerns about privacy and proper consent during a controversial data-sharing agreement, but find that only the National Health Service broke the law.

Family members of Lacks, the donor behind the widely used HeLa cell line, are planning to sue Johns Hopkins University.

She will also be an executive producer on the HBO Films project, which is based on a 2010 book about the life of Henrietta Lacks.

The federal agency publishes a brief note alleging another ethical breach by former Karolinska Institute researcher Paolo Macchiarini.

Cherished myths and merciless facts clash in a one-act play.

A company has been ordered to stop estimating Icelanders’ genotypes and linking them to hospital records.

US watchdog suspends plans to discipline researchers who failed to disclose the full risks of an experimental trial conducted with premature infants.

Experts disagree on how doctors should reveal incidental findings in patients’ DNA sequences.

Growing databanks are invaluable to biomedical researchers, but patients are often unaware of what their information is used for.

A doctor who falsified legal documents and failed to get approval for a clinical trial has been reinstated by an Austrian commission.