Australia’s first human challenge trials centre opens
Australia's first clinical trial unit specifically commissioned to conduct human challenge trials, or controlled human infection model (CHIM), Doherty Clinical Trials (DCT) Ltd, was recently opened...
Crisis in research: if Harvard isn’t safe from fraud, who is?
The president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, was forced to step down last month because of allegations of plagiarism. Not long after, Harvard’s DEI czar, Sherri...
The FDA finally approved Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip for human trials. Have all the concerns been addressed?
Since its founding in 2016, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink has had the ambitious mission to build a next-generation brain implant with at least 100...
Human challenge studies: what we’ve learned from intentionally infecting people with COVID
When COVID began to spread rapidly in 2020, sending the UK and other countries into lockdowns, many people asked what they could do to help....
