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Research Matters: Safeguarding ethics in research

Research Matters: Safeguarding ethics in research

Research Matters: Safeguarding ethics in research


2/9/2026

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A lab assistant at the °µÍøAV Water and Environmental Research Institute tests a water sample for lead using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer.

Thanks to Mary Shelly, the author of Frankenstein, the literary world has an incomparable Gothic horror story. In today’s world, Dr. Frankenstein would have needed to go through an Institutional Review Board, which most likely would not have given the approval for him to create the Frankenstein creature.

Although this is merely fiction, in the real world, there have been many examples of egregiously unethical studies conducted on human and animal subjects.

 

Research Matters is a new editorial series from the °µÍøAV Office of Research and Sponsored Programs that brings readers into the world of UOG’s research centers. The column runs every other Monday in the Guam Pacific Daily News (PDN).