Workshop: The Road to Well-constructed Knowledge Commons for the Life Sciences

The RESET-affiliated project Crossover Research 2: Well-constructed Knowledge Commons is arranging a workshop on life science knowledge management. Dates: June 25. – 26. 2019Venue: Scandic NidelvenRegistration: Please register here for workshop participation, lunch and dinner before June 17th. The Road to Well-constructed Knowledge Commons for the Life Sciences The main obstacle for computationally […]
Lessons from Scandinavia

RESET-forsker Lars Ursin og Janicke Syltern har vært gjesteredaktører for et spesialnummer om bioetiske problemstillinger i tidsskriftet Pediatrics. De bidrar også med flere artikler i spesialnummeret, som dreier seg om etikk i nyfødtmedisinen i Skandinavia. Berge Solberg fra RESET har også en artikkel i spesialnummeret, som kan leses i sin helhet her. Utdrag: Look to […]
#MeTooAkademia

“Tafsing på fagmiddager, trakassering i plenum og faglig baksnakking fra avviste flørtere. #MetooAkademia viser maktmisbruk med bred palett.” RESET-forsker Sophia Efstathiou og Marit Hovdal Moan intervjuet i Morgenbladet i anledning #MeTooAkademia-kampanjen.
Fanget av kjønnsfella

“Mannen er allestedsnærværende; kvinnekroppene er unntakene. Det gjelder både Starmus og utstillingen Body Worlds Vital.” Kronikk i Adresseavisen om Body Worlds Vital av Sara Orning og RESET-forsker Ane Møller Gabrielsen.
Forskning på liv og død

“For noen år siden publiserte Aftenposten nakenbilder av Fridtjof Nansen, fra boken Nansens siste kjærlighet. Oppslaget vakte debatt: Var ikke dette private bilder? Hadde det offentlighetens interesse? Samtidig, mannen er jo død, hvilken skade kan offentliggjøringen av disse bildene gjøre? Hvem tar skade av det – Nansen?” RESET-forsker Lars Ursin blogger i NTNU sin fagblogg […]
Lars Ursin on genetic research in Universitetsavisa

What does it mean to take part in genetic research, asks RESET researcher Lars Ursin in Universitetsavisa
Open meeting about genetic research September 6th
On the day before the RESET workshop, we will arrange an open meeting, engaging the public and the wider medical and research community on the topic of return of research results. The meeting will be arranged in collaboration with the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board. Registration and more information.
RESET Workshop September 7-8: Feedback of Individual Genetic Results to Research Participants: Is it feasible? Should we do it? If so – why and when?
The RESET research group is hosting the last of three workshops in a project funded by the Research Council of Norway, the SAMKUL program. The previous workshops have been on dynamic consent and protection of privacy. Recent developments in genetics and genomics have led to an intensified international debate about whether relevant genetic information should […]
Early detection: Always beneficial?

Articles in the medical literature on early detection tend to focus on benefits rather than harms, but does evidence on outcomes warrant this difference, ask Bjørn Hofmann and the RESET member John-Arne Skolbekken in a recent article in the BMJ. The article is HERE The article is presented in GEMINI HERE
Berge Solberg on the hype of new medical technologies

In Klasseskampen, Reset member Berge Solberg is interviewed in the series “The New Human Being”. Read the interview (in Norwegian) HERE and HERE