Research that Helps Move Us Closer to a World Where Each Child Thrives

Research that Helps Move Us Closer to a World where Each Child Thrives.

Schools are curtailing programs in arts, physical exercise, and play so more time and resources can be devoted to academic instruction. Yet indications are that the arts (e.g., music, dance, or theatre) and physical activity (e.g., sports, martial arts, or youth circus) are crucial for all aspects of children's development - including success in school. Thus in cutting those activities, schools...

Spatial Positioning as a Representation that Helps us Think

Our research focuses on the design of interactive systems that support early stages of creative design tasks. Externalization plays a critical role especially in the early stages of design. For instance, architects use sketches to explore possible design solutions as well as to frame design problems while going through a cycle of reflection-in-action. Subtle aspects of the sketch itself, for in...

Physiology helps GWAS take a step closer to mechanism.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been extremely successful at identifying replicable associations between common genetic variants and type 2 diabetes risk. The latest studies, including 35,000 European (1), 7,000 East Asian (2), 5,500 South Asian (3), and most recently 3,800 Latin American (4) and 6,000 Japanese (5) type 2 diabetes cases, bring the total number of associated variants...

Where will genetic research take us?

Transl Pediatr 2015;4(4):318-319 www.thetp.org When Watson and Crick published the structure of DNA in Nature in 1953, they anticipated that the structure would unlock huge scientific secrets allowing the treatment of a huge range of disorders. In their day, the range of disorders that could have a genetic basis would have been unfathomable and now include forms of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s...

Where is Patient Safety Research and Practice Heading? A Response to Recent Commentaries