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KPBS Midday EditionWhen computer code meets DNA we stand at the dawn of digital life. Pioneering biologist J. Craig Venter discusses his new book: Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life. -
Hudson Freeze might have a chilly last name, but this week, he'll receive an award for finding something hot. An unusual bacterium he helped discover in the late '60s went on to catalyze a biotech boom and enabled modern genetic sequencing. -
As CEO of Connect, Duane Roth served as a facilitator and spokesman for San Diego's innovation industry. Roth died Saturday from injuries sustained in a bicycling accident. Over the weekend, local tech and life science leaders paid their respects. -
KPBS Midday EditionCarlsbad is hosting an innovative new business incubator that city leaders hope will eventually generate new high-paying jobs. But it’s a risky venture. Known as a “hackerspace” for biology in San Diego, 'Bio, Tech and Beyond' holds its grand opening this week. -
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. -
KPBS Midday EditionA woman dying in Las Colinas jail would be released if she were in prison. Homeowners atop the Solana Beach bluffs may sue the city. The decision to import African Clawed Frogs decades ago having dire consequences now. The landscape of undocumented immigrants in California and the nation is complex. -
Researchers at the Salk Institute are making progress on a compound that they believe could potentially stop Alzheimer's disease in its tracks. To show just how promising their drug candidate is, they put it through unusually hard experiments. -
The day when organs can be printed as easily as newspapers remains far in the future. But with technology that can assemble small chunks of life-like liver tissue, a San Diego company has taken one more step toward making it a reality. -
KPBS Midday EditionWho'd have thought that a diabetes drug pulled from the shelves because of harmful side effects would shrink lung-cancer tumors? Scientists at Salk Institute's new Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine had that very idea, and it's panning out. -
KPBS Midday EditionProposition 37 is attracting national attention because of the message it could send about our food. The measure would make California the first state in the U.S. to require labeling for genetically modified food.
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