• ​Don't do fasionable science. Max Delbrück (1906-1981)

  • Max who is the legendary feature of molecular biology and was the former mentor of Dr. Yuh Nug Jan (who was the former mentor of Woo Jae Kim) once said the "Don't do fashionable science". This sentence tells many aspects of modern day scientists who unwillingly follow just the fashion, not think of making it. Kim lab will make a fashion not just following it.

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• Good Research Practice: "Ethical considerations in research are largely a matter of finding a reasonable balance between various interests that are all legitimate. One such interest is our quest for knowledge. New knowledge is valuable in many ways ad can contribute to the development of the individual as well as society. Individual privacy interests as well as protection against various forms of harm or risk of harm are other legitimate interests. But sometimes new knowledge can only be gained if research subjects and participants are exposed to a certain degree of risk." The Swedish Research Council’s expert group on ethics. (2011) "Good Research Practice – What is it?", Swedish research council, Please see also CODEX website for details.

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• Laboratory life / Everyday life: You will discover that a great deal of  number of broad rules that define research ethics are all correspond to more general life rules such as;

  • Tell the truth about your research.

  • Consciously review and account for the purpose(s) of your studies.

  • Openly account for your methods and results.

  • Openly account for commercial interests and other associations.

  • Not steal research results from others.

  • Keep your research organized, for instance through documentation and archiving.

  • Strive to conduct your research without harming people, animals or the environment.

  • Be fair in your judgement of others’ research.

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• ​CUDOS: We believe that CUDOS is the minimal tradition of science in function. These simple five norms provide strong ethical guidelines performing research in the lab. Please remember these norms which will help your research integrity. Merton, Robert K. (1973[1942]), "The Normative Structure of Science", in Merton, Robert K., The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

  • Communalism The norm of communism, or communalism (C), means that the research community and society as a whole have the right to be informed of the re- sults of research. New knowledge should not be kept secret and concealed. Scientific advances are regarded as a result of collaboration within and bet- ween generations of researchers; after all, the researcher does not work in a vacuum. Thus, according to Merton, there is no such thing as “intellectual property”, owned by the researcher.

  • Universalism The norm of universalism (U) requires scientific work to be evalua- ted with reference to scientific criteria alone. When assessing the validity of the results, we are to take no account, for example, of the researcher’s race, gender or position in society.

  • Disinterestedness The norm of disinterestedness (D) means that the researcher must have no other motive for his or her research than a de- sire to contribute new knowledge.

  • Organized Skepticism The norm of organized skepticism (OS) requires the researcher to constantly question and scrutinize, but also to refrain from expressing an assessment until he or she has sufficient evidence on which to base it.

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• ​Fairness in laboratory life: Kim lab will follow the 'Golden rule', a.k.a the ethic of reciprocity which is ethical directive which has been expressed in many moral maxims which essentially state that "one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself" as described below,

  • "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you in like case." Peter Kropotkin, La Morale Anarchiste (1891)

  • We also follow the 'Silver rule', the converse of golden rule state that "one should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated" as described below,

  • "What you do not want others to do to you, do not do unto others." Confucius, in Analects (c. 500 BC), XV:24

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• ​On Scientific Culture: We want to build scientific culture which has been appeared in innovative institutes and laboratories. The first fly room of T.H. Morgan was one of those laboratory incubated creative scientist and scientific culture. This is why we named our website domain as flyroom.net. Max Perutz who once managed MRC LMB stated that,

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"My questions are not as absurd as they seem, because creativity in science, as in the arts, cannot be organized. It arises spontaneously from individual talent. Well-run laboratories can foster it, but hierarchical organization, inflexible, bureaucratic rules, and mounds of futile paperwork can kill it. Discoveries cannot be planned." Max Perutz, from the Preface to "I Wish I’d Made You Angry Earlier"