According to the federal regulations, human subjects are living individuals about whom an investigator conducting research obtains information through interaction or intervention with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information; or:

The correct answer, as the second portion of this excerpt of the whole regulation states: "Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or generates identifiable private information, or identifiable biospecimens." (taken from Human Research Protection Office website).

Explanation:

This entire portion makes part of the regulatory norms that have been established in the United States to identify, and classify research as involving human, or not involving human, subjects. This helps researchers to file their paperwork before the IRB agency so that their research project may receive a status, and a recognition, before the regulatory agencies, and they can proceed with their project in the legal and regularized manner that it should follow. For this reason, the regulations specify what a human subject is and what research is, and the particular excerpt placed in this question is part of the portion where the regulation explains what the law defines as a human subject and his/her relationship with a researcher regarding a research project.

AbsorbingMan AbsorbingMan · Answer 2 · 2022-02-01T13:38:50+01:00

Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or generates identifiable private information.

Human Subject Research

It is a systematic and a scientific study which involves or uses 'human beings' as their research subjects.
The researcher interacts with the human subject and collects their observations.
The researcher studies, analyzes and gathers information about the observations and experience of the human subjects in his/her studies.
The Institutional Review Board (IRB) protects the rights of the human subjects.

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