by Megan K. Rauch | Jun 11, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — When Alejandra Ceja was growing up in Huntington Park, a Latino community in Los Angeles, she didn’t have exposure to the type of leader that she would one day become – a woman helping kids like her explore a world of possibilities. “I didn’t have...
by Mary Lee | Jun 11, 2015 | Science + Technology
Doctors and researchers are excited about new therapies derived from the study of the human genome that hold the promise of curing multiple forms of cancer using the patients’ own DNA to undo cancer cells. The vast majority of new so-called precision medicine drugs...
by Matthew L. Schehl | Jun 11, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Dan Mikulecky had an epiphany during his 2004 deployment to Iraq with the Montana National Guard. He had joined the Guard for college, but wasn’t sure the direction he wanted to go in life post-deployment. Being out in the Iraqi countryside, however, it...
by Mary Cirincione | Jun 11, 2015 | Politics
Estimates suggest that despite efforts to reduce backlog, 100,000 untested kits remain WASHINGTON—“At least if I comply with him, it will be a quicker death.” That’s what ran through Natasha Alexenko’s mind on August 6, 1993, as a man with a gun bent her over a...
by Mary Cirincione | Jun 11, 2015 | Politics
Every untested rape kit signifies a victim’s search for justice, according to rape survivor and advocate Natasha Alexenko. Her own search lasted 15 years. We’ve assembled some numbers to help put her quest – and the quest of others – into perspective....