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Out of 44 publicly traded life sciences companies based in San Diego, only one has a female CEO. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego VA Medical Center scolded over wait times. JMI Realty pushes a plan to redevelop the Qualcomm Stadium site. San Diego's BioMed company ordered to testify at a House subcommittee on fetal tissue research. -
San Diego gene sequencing pioneer J. Craig Venter strips the genome down to its bare essentials in a decades-long study. -
British regulators say the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi isn't cost-effective -
KPBS Midday EditionIt only takes a blood sample. That's one of the reasons genetic tests, like those developed at San Diego's Sequenom Laboratories are becoming widely used for prenatal screening. But as easy as the tests are to perform, it's not as easy to determine how accurate they are. -
Science aficionados are expected to turn out in big numbers this weekend at San Diego's Festival of Science & Engineering. The event kicks off Saturday with "Expo Day" downtown. -
Dardie Robinson's son, Daniel, died suddenly at 29, and no one knew why — until researchers in La Jolla started looking at her family's DNA. -
Researchers don't have enough data to know whether ZMapp helps Ebola-infected patients more than standard care. -
Researchers with The Scripps Research Institute are part of a team that has uncovered antibodies that could lead to an Ebola vaccine. -
The San Diego-based biotech company Illumina Inc. will partner with two universities and a pair of healthcare organizations for a pilot study that will involve genotyping large sample collections.
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