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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that private companies cannot patent naturally occurring human genes. That could affect the patent portfolios of some San Diego biotech companies.

Former Padres owner John Moores wants to strike-out river blindness.

It's been one year since the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and partial nuclear meltdown hit Japan. Are U.S. nuclear plants any safer? Are we any closer to being able to predict big earthquakes?

Grossmont College celebrated the grand opening of a $35-million health and sciences complex today. The two-story building is filled with the latest high-tech equipment, including computerized mannequins for nursing students.

Rep. Jim Himes is willing to vote against the wishes of his constituents. Probably not this time, though.

Former chemist Annie Dookhan began serving a 3-to-5 year sentence in a Massachusetts prison on Friday after pleading guilty to falsifying tests of drug evidence and helping to create one of the nation's largest drug lab scandals.

Like Father, Like Son

California's law comes amid legal challenges across the country involving transgender students filing actions for the right to use facilities that match their expressed identities.

The rare daytime astronomical event, in which Venus can be seen as a tiny black dot crossing the sun, won't happen again until 2117. Andrea Wulf, author of Chasing Venus, explains how 18th-century astronomers used the event to calculate the distance between the Earth and the sun.

In the two weeks since George Zimmerman's acquittal, the same activists galvanized by his trial are finding it hard to focus the energy of the Trayvon Martin movement.