Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrants – Bodies of 58 Men and 14 Women Found Stacked Atop One Another

A Mexican drug cartel massacred 72 Central and South American migrants within 100 miles of the U.S. border that they were trying to reach, according to an Ecuadorean survivor who escaped and stumbled wounded to a highway checkpoint where he alerted marines, official said Wednesday. The marines fought the cartel gunmen at a ranch in [...]

Obama Administration Appeals Federal Judge’s Stem Cell Ruling

“Yet despite the high hopes for embryonic stem cells, progress has been slow — so far there are no treatments with the cells. All along, though, scientists wondered if they could sidestep the ethical debate by creating embryonic stem cells without the embryos. Every cell has the same DNA. A heart cell is different from a liver cell because it uses different genes. But all the genes to make a liver cell, or any other cell, are there in the cell. The liver genes are masked in a heart cell and vice versa. Why can’t scientists find a way to unmask all of a cell’s genes and turn it directly into a stem cell without using an embryo? A few years ago, two groups of researchers — one led by Dr. Thomson — did just that.