IRB Notes: New NIH Regulations for Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules
Starting March 5, 2013, the NIH Guidelines will cover work with synthetic nucleic acid molecules in addition to current requirements for reviewing studies involving recombinant DNA molecules. With this change, the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) will also review studies involving of the deliberate transfer into human research participants of synthetic nucleic acid molecules, or DNA or RNA derived from synthetic nucleic acid molecules, that meet any one of the following criteria: Contain more than 100 … Read More

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