U.S. researchers are seeking 1 million volunteers to share their DNA and health habits for science...

A new technique that relies on genetics is revolutionizing food poisoning investigation and identifying common causes in scattered and seemingly unrelated illnesses...

A new study shows there are more gorillas and chimps in West Africa than scientists initially thought, but that may not last...

Children with a rare, incurable disease that causes rapid aging and early death may live longer if treated with an experimental drug first developed for cancer patients...

A prominent biomedical ethics expert has a startling prediction about how children will be conceived in the future: Couples will choose from among dozens of embryos, each with a deep DNA profile...

Wildlife managers in the American Southwest say a once-rare bat important to the pollination of plants used to produce tequila has made a comeback and is being removed from the U.S. endangered species...

Bowhead whales, the more blubbery Arctic cousins of the humpback, are the jazz singers of whale set...

'Truly alarming': Scientists see no babies for endangered right whales during winter calving season...

'Beginning of the end?' Calving season for endangered right whales ending with no babies spotted...

New United Nations reports see a sicker Earth because of loss of biodiversity, with fewer plants and animals and less food and clean water for people...