Day: August 11, 2016

This week, the Indian regulators announced reversal of a rule from 2 years ago that restricted an investigator from participating in more than 3 clinical trials at a given time. This is a very minor change that has little practical impact on the status of clinical trials in India. The clinical trial industry in India has been … Read more

Not really, but we might be going down the road to create one with NIH funding. This week, NIH lifted a moratorium on insertion of human stem cells into early stage embryos of non-human vertebrate animals to create human-animal chimera. This represents a unique balance of scientific curiosity, medical benefit, and ethical dilemma. Human-animal chimeras have dominated … Read more