Last Updated: 03/05/10
Legal and Ethical Issues
Ethical Collection of Specimens
How Federal Regulations Apply to Research on Human Specimens
Federal requirements to protect human subjects apply to most research on human specimens (such as cells, blood, and urine), residual diagnostic specimens and medical information.
The NIH has developed a user-friendly brochure to help investigators understand how the human subjects regulations 45CFR46 apply to their research. You may download this brochure, entitled “Research on Human Specimens: Are You Conducting Research Using Human Subjects?”
- Federal Regulations on the Protection of Human Subjects (45CFR46)
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/mpa/45cfr46.php3 - User-Friendly Brochure “Research on Human Specimens: Are You Conducting Research Using Human Subjects?
- HTML Version
- PDF Version
- Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the PDF file. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it free of charge from the Adobe Web site.
