Ethical issues in microbiome research and medicine

The human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live on and in the human organism’s skin, mucosa, and intestinal tract. Re-examining commonly accepted ethical standards from the perspective of this new area of research provides an opportunity to reassess our current think...

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Autor principal: Rhodes, Rosamond
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5059983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27729053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0702-7
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description The human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live on and in the human organism’s skin, mucosa, and intestinal tract. Re-examining commonly accepted ethical standards from the perspective of this new area of research provides an opportunity to reassess our current thinking about research regulations as well as the importance of some principles and distinctions. In this commentary, I explain ethical issues illuminated by research on the human microbiome related to personal identity, privacy, property, research ethics, public health, and biobanks.
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spelling pubmed-50599832016-10-17 Ethical issues in microbiome research and medicine Rhodes, Rosamond BMC Med Commentary The human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live on and in the human organism’s skin, mucosa, and intestinal tract. Re-examining commonly accepted ethical standards from the perspective of this new area of research provides an opportunity to reassess our current thinking about research regulations as well as the importance of some principles and distinctions. In this commentary, I explain ethical issues illuminated by research on the human microbiome related to personal identity, privacy, property, research ethics, public health, and biobanks. BioMed Central 2016-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5059983/ /pubmed/27729053 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0702-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5059983/
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