BY TONY YANG The completion of the Human Genome Project marked the dawn of a bold new era — the era of the genome in biology and medicine. There has been growing biomedical research on relating population-based genomic analyses to diseases. This is a transformation from investigating a small group of individuals to analyzing the [...]
BY DAVID W. HAINES In 1939, as the St. Louis sailed first to Cuba and then along the east coast of the United States, the U.S. government refused to land the Jewish refugees on board—even though some 700 already had affidavits of support. They and many other Jews over the next several years would be [...]
BY JAMES P. PFIFFNER President George W. Bush proclaimed the official position of the United States on torture on June 26, 2003, the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. “Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right,” he said. “The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture, and [...]