A Kind Mind: Enhancing Socio-Emotional Skills in German Preschool Children Through the Mindfulness-Based Kindness Curriculum.

: It has been shown that mindfulness-based practices are beneficial for children's cognitive and social-emotional development. In the present study, we investigated the effects of an eight-week mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum (KC), a specially developed program for 3-6 years old preschoolers, on Executive Functions (EFs) and socio-emotional competencies. From three German kindergartens, 69 preschoolers participated.

HMX3 is a critical vulnerability in MECOM-negative KMT2A::MLLT3 acute myelomonocytic leukemia.

KMT2A::MLLT3 acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AML) comes in two clinically and biologically different subtypes. One is characterized by inferior outcome, older age, and MECOM oncogene expression. The other is mainly observed in children and young adults, associates with better clinical outcome, but lacks MECOM.

Characterization of DNA methylation reader proteins in .

In plants, cytosine DNA methylation (mC) is largely associated with transcriptional repression of transposable elements, but it can also be found in the body of expressed genes, referred to as gene body methylation (gbM). gbM is correlated with ubiquitously expressed genes; however, its function, or absence thereof, is highly debated. The different outputs that mC can have raise questions as to how it is interpreted-or read-differently in these sequence and genomic contexts.

Visual working memory as the substrate for mental rotation: A replication.

An experimental study by Hyun and Luck suggests that object working memory, but not spatial working memory, is employed during mental rotation. In contrast, correlational research points to the relevance of spatial working memory in mental rotation. Considering these somewhat conflicting results and the fact that a small sample was acquired in the study of Hyun and Luck, a replication of their study was conducted.