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BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, Uganda has experienced a significant increase in clinical research driven by both academia and industry. This has been combined with a broader spectrum of research proposals, with respect...

Competence Complex and emerging study designs Research Ethics Committees Cross-Sectional Studies Ethical Review Ethics Committees research Humans Male Research Design Uganda

Biomedical Research Humans Peer review research Periodicals as Topic

The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused over 98 million confirmed...

Biomedical Research covid-19 communication Humans Information Dissemination Open Access Publishing Pandemics Peer review research Preprints as Topic Publishing SARS-CoV-2

The Protein Data Bank in Europe-Knowledge Base (PDBe-KB, https://pdbe-kb.org) is a community-driven, collaborative resource for literature-derived, manually curated and computationally predicted structural and functional...

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Family-based research is an Indigenous methodology that engages the self, family, and relationships as important sites of resistance and resurgence. Grounded in an Indigenous worldview, family-based research invokes a broad...

Education family Indigenous research resistance

In the summer of 1974, construction commenced for an oil tanker terminal in the Arabian Gulf. The following winter, a particularly strong tropical storm hit after the piles were driven, prior to installation of the...

Civil Engineering Coastal and Oceans Engineering 8751 research CIVIL Pile Fatigue Failure

Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) face the greatest burden of neurotrauma. However, most of the research published in scientific journals originates from high-income countries, suggesting those in LMICs are either...

neurological injury Neurosurgery qualitative research Developing Countries Ethics Committees research Humans Income Neurosurgeons qualitative research

This paper is concerned with the ethics of knowledge production when conducting research on racial injustice. The discussion draws upon my doctoral research, in which I interviewed 23 racialized social workers in Toronto...

race racism discourse analysis research

Stem cell-based clinical interventions are increasingly advancing through preclinical testing and approaching clinical trials. The complexity and diversity of these approaches, and the confusion created by unproven and untested...

early phase clinical trials Guidelines human stem cell-derived interventions institutional review and ethics boards review process Clinical Trials as Topic Ethics Committees research Humans Stem Cell Transplantation Stem Cells Surveys and Questionnaires Translational Research Biomedical

The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is an audacious endeavor to obtain whole-genome sequences of representatives from all eukaryotic species on Earth. In addition to the project's technical and organizational challenges, it also...

EBP ELSI Biodiversity ethics Genomics Animals Biosecurity Endangered Species ethics research Genomics Humans

BACKGROUND: Biomedical research increasingly relies on long-term studies involving use and re-use of biological samples and data stored in large repositories or "biobanks" over lengthy periods, often raising questions about...

Biomedical Research Human subjects research Informed Consent research ethics Social science research Adult Aged Aged 80 and over Attitude Biological Specimen Banks Biomedical Research Cooperative Behavior Data Collection ethics research Female Humans Informed Consent Judgment Logic Longitudinal Studies Male Middle Aged qualitative research Research Design Research Personnel Research Subjects risk trust

Academic conferences are among the most prolific scientific activities, yet the current abstract submission and review process has serious limitations. We propose a revised process that would address these limitations, achieve...

Open Science academic conferences preregistration cognitive neuroscience Congresses as Topic Humans Peer review research

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BACKGROUND: The red tape and delays around research ethics and governance approvals frequently frustrate researchers yet, as the lesser of two evils, are largely accepted as unavoidable. Here we quantify aspects of the research...

Bioethics [MeSH] Biomedical ethics Ethical review [MeSH] ethics Ethics Committees Evaluation studies [MeSH] IRB Institutional review boards Research [MeSH] clinical governance Cooperative Behavior England Ethical Review Ethics Committees research ethics research Government Agencies Humans Interviews as Topic Research Personnel Surveys and Questionnaires

Civil Engineering Coastal Engineering research CIVIL SHORING SHORELINE PIER 27 Toronto Development

BACKGROUND: The European Union (EU) aims to optimize patient protection and efficiency of health-care research by harmonizing procedures across Member States. Nonetheless, further improvements are required to increase...

CENTER-TBI European Union Harmonization Health-care research Research ethic committees Brain Injuries Traumatic Ethics Committees research Europe Health Services Research Humans Multicenter Studies as Topic Observational Studies as Topic Prospective Studies

In their letter to the Editor in this issue, Kolstoe and Carpenter challenge a core aspect of our recently published case study of research approvals [BMC Medical Ethics 20:7] by arguing that we conflate research ethics with...

Bioethics [MeSH] Biomedical ethics Comment [publication type] [MeSH] Ethical review [MeSH] ethics Ethics Committees IRB Institutional review boards Research [MeSH] England Ethics Committees research ethics Medical ethics research Humans Records