Tag: ethics

Worth a look: Communicating promise, risks, & ethics of large-scale, open space microbiome & metagenome research 

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Urban Microbiomes
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At the recent NAS MOBE meeting there was some discussion of some potential ethical concerns associated with one of the projects discussed (work of Eric Alm where he was collecting samples from urban water systems and trying to infer information about communities and residents).   OK #MOBE17 and others out there – I am getting …

Adapting Standards: Ethical Oversight of Participant-Led Health Research

By Hal Levin   Posted in Citizen Science Scholarly Communication
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Just out in today’s edition of PLoS Medicine: Adapting Standards: Ethical Oversight of Participant-Led Health Research. The article raises questions (in my mind) about the ethics related to human genome sequencing projects. We ask, what is “informed consent” when you have your genome sequence published? What about your children’s interests, your siblings’, your descendants’ and …