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ICR conference 2010

We will be exhibiting at the ICR conference on 19-20 April. Please come and see us on stand 7 if you’re going to be there.

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Mission impenetrable

I’ve just returned from a 1-day conference organised by the National Research Ethics Service. I can’t say I’ve finished the day with a wonderful sense of optimism about the future of ethical review of clinical research.
The day began with a talk that was supposed to be an update about what NRES was doing. In fact [...]

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Peer review of stem cell research

I heard an interesting story on the radio this morning about stem cell research. It’s also reported on the BBC news website, although strangely enough I couldn’t find it reported anywhere else in the media.
Apparently, a group of prominent stem cell researchers have written an “open letter” to journal editors complaining that their excellent research [...]

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UK Biobank

I have just received an invitation to take part in the UK Biobank study. I have some serious concerns about their attitude to data protection, and I won’t be participating.

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New team member

I am delighted to announce that as of today we have a new team member at Dianthus. Ruth Allwood has joined us in the role of client support manager. Her role will be to manage all the administration around our projects, take care of finances, keep our clients up to date with status reports, etc.
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