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A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects - NYTimes.com
A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects - NYTimes.com
Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad
Even before his son was born, Pawan Sinha saw unique potential.
At a birthing class, Dr. Sinha, a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stunned everyone, including his wife, by saying he was excited about the baby’s birth “because I really want to study him and do experiments with him.” He did, too, strapping a camera on baby Darius’s head, recording what he looked at.
Dr. Sinha is among a new crop of scientists using their children as research subjects.
Other researchers have studied their own children in the past, but sophisticated technology allows modern-day scientists to collect new and more detailed data. The scientists also say that studying their children allows for more in-depth research and that the children make reliable participants in an era of scarce research financing.
“You need subjects, and they’re hard to get,” said Deborah Linebarger, a developmental psychologist who directs the Children’s Media Lab at the University of Pennsylvania
This is quoted from New York Times
The question: Is this trend -- using offspring as test subjects -- dangerous, unsavoury, ot in any way unethical?
07 January 2009
Transgenic drugs article from FierceBiotech
Quoted from http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/fda-staffers-endorse-gtcs-transgenic-anti-clotting-drug/2009-01-07?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&cmp-id=EMC-NL-FB&dest=FB:
FDA staffers endorse transgenic anti-clotting drug - FierceBiotech
The field of transgenics--developing therapies in genetically engineered animals--just got a big boost from staffers at the FDA. Regulators said that Framingham, MA-based GTC BioTherapeutics's drug ATryn, an anti-clotting treatment produced in goats, appeared to be safe and effective. The recommendation was released in documents made available ahead of an expert advisory committee meeting on Friday.
...GTC is one of a handful of companies out to demonstrate that it can produce a less-expensive stream of therapeutics from transgenic animals, harvesting drugs through their milk.
Other references on transgenic or ATryn include:
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