The Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) Precision Medicine Institute today announces the recent opening of its innovative whole-genome sequencing lab that is revolutionizing the hospital’s capabilities to make genomic results accessible and integrated into patient care. Since its launch, the lab has dramatically changed how providers and patients benefit from genetic testing based on the speed at which results are available, the ability to seamlessly integrate into the patient’s electronic health record and the ease with which families can complete the test from home. 

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team analyzed the historical evolution of the bureaucracy from an economic perspective and came up with surprising results about nation-building and democratization.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences has gone in this seventeenth edition to social psychologists Icek Ajzen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Dolores Albarracín (University of Pennsylvania), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), Anthony Greenwald (University of Washington), and Richard Petty (Ohio State University) for “revolutionizing the way we understand and measure attitudes” with an influence that extends to “psychology, sociology, political science, education, health, economics and other areas.”