Group asks NIH to stop growth hormone trials

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Foundation on Economic Trends, a watchdog group led by Jeremy Rifkin, wants to stop the testing of human growth hormone on healthy children by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Rifkin states that his group will take NIH to court to end the testing on the grounds that it defies federal regulations mandating that such experiments pose only a small risk to children or have a chance of directly improving their condition. NIH is carrying on two trials, one on children with Turner's syndrome, which causes females to be under five feet tall, and the other on short children with normal levels of hormone.

Research, Laws, regulations and rules, Political activity, Testing, Children, Human experimentation in medicine, Human medical experimentation, Somatotropin, Foundation on Economic Trends

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NIH laboratory admits to fabricated embryo research, retracts paper

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) disavowed research on mouse embryo development published in the periodical 'Cell' in 1991 after co-author and former NIH researcher Mitchell Rosner confessed to concocting data. Rosner had made the startling claim that the transcription factor Oct-3 is essential to cell division and may also control DNA replication early in embryonic development. However, Rosner admitted fabricating this result after repeated attempts at repeating his experiment failed to confirm that Oct-3 has these functions. The case demonstrated the difficulty of detecting scientific fraud.

Cases, Reports, Ethical aspects, Embryology, Experimental, Embryological research, Fraud in science, Science fraud, Cell (Periodical)

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