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‘Small World Initiative’: Engaging young students in critical research

Twenty-four faculty members from colleges and universities from around the country left the Yale campus on Aug. 1 with a new mission: to inspire their freshman and sophomore students to pursue scientific research, specifically by discovering new antibiotics from soil bacteria.

In a week-long workshop called “The Small World Initiative” and held at Kline Biology Tower, the teachers developed the tools to engage their students in real-life research projects with such life-saving potential. (more…)

Safeguards Needed for Tissue Donors

By Guest PostFebruary 1, 2013Healthcloning, controversial issues, data in biobanks, data management systems, data sets, donations, donors to biobanks, ethicist, hastings center report, health information, human tissue samples, medical records, michigan state university, negative racial stereotypes, research projects, tissue sample, tom tomlinson, treatments for diseases

Donors to biobanks – vast collections of human tissue samples that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for diseases – have a right to basic information about how their donations may be used, a Michigan State University ethicist argues in a new paper.

The idea behind biobanks is that a repository with hundreds of thousands of samples, each linked to medical records and other health information, can yield discoveries smaller data sets can’t match. Once samples are collected, researchers in many fields can use the data repeatedly. (more…)

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‘Small World Initiative’: Engaging young students in critical research

Safeguards Needed for Tissue Donors