Alzheimer's Disease: Why is Early Detection Important?

O10: Why Preschool Education Programs Is So Important

Neurological development is largely a result of the learning that takes place starting at birth and during the earliest years of life. Child Care and Preschool Education Programs are key to predicting ultimate success in school and life. Children who attend preschool or other early education programs have enhanced cognitive, verbal, and social development (which is maintained into the first few...

Why epistasis is important for tackling complex human disease genetics

What is epistasis? The goal of human genetics is to specify the genotypephenotype map; that is, to understand how naturally occurring genetic variants jointly act to modulate disease risk. In a typical genome scan (for example, a genomewide association study), the effect of each variant on the disease trait of interest is interrogated one at a time. The effects of all variants are then summed t...

Why is informed consent important?

INFORMED CONSENT AND TRUST: EYAL’S ARGUMENT In our feature article, Nir Eyal attacks attempts by bioethicists including Onora O’Neill, Torbjörn Tännsjö, and Jennifer Jackson to ground the importance of informed consent in its role in safeguarding trust in medical practice (see page 437, Editor’s choice). The trustpromotion argument for informed consent, as Eyal terms it, states (1) that trust i...

Why is participation inequality important?

Participation inequality – the phenomenon that a very small percentage of participants contribute a very significant proportion of information to the total output – is persistent across Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and citizen science projects. It has been identified in both online and offline projects that rely on volunteers’ effort over the past 20 years and, therefore, can be exp...

Why is Fault Localization Important ?