Governing synthetic data in medical research: the time is now.

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DB receives funding from the Isaac Newton Trust (grant JRAG/381/G124292) and the Kavli Foundation to the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public (grant G115418). AC receives funding from the Wellcome Trust to Wellcome Connecting Science (grant 220540/Z/20/A). RM receives funding from the Kavli Foundation to the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public (grant G115418) and the Wellcome Trust to Wellcome Connecting Science (grant 220540/Z/20/A). The funders had no involvement in the conceptualisation and writing of this Comment. MvdS declares no competing interests. During the preparation of this work, the authors used Grammarly and ChatGPT for proofreading. After using these tools, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.