Human Rights Watch is pleased to contribute to the report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity regarding the human right to education and the protection against violence ...

The Synthetic Human Genome Project is working to build synthetic human DNA but who is asking how this science will impact ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

It's referred to as a phantom, yet it's anything but scary. In fact, for patients who need tumors extracted, it could help ...

In a functioning system, the kind of placebo-controlled vaccine trials that Secretary Kennedy is calling for would never get past an IRB, much less progress to an IND application. Vaccines are being ...

From depressed polar bears to charismatic pandas, conservationists have used anthropomorphism, or the practice of attributing ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Kajal Schiller designed a computer simulation game to measure whether socioeconomic status might determine how likely people ...

Research qualifying for Expedited Review includes activities that involve "no more than minimal risk" to human participants, but also involves one or more of the procedures listed in Section IV. B. 2.

Harvard cognitive psychologist Daniel Schacter’s work has underpinned a sea change in how we think about memory; namely, that ...

Covered individuals with direct responsibility for human subjects research are required to complete a disclosure statement annually, and within 30 days of discovering or acquiring a new significant ...

The Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections was an 11-member panel of volunteers ... in the protection of the rights and well-being of human subjects involved in research.