John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome, has died...

Alaska moose biologists are using DNA-extracting darts to try to survey out the moose population in Anchorage...

Scientists aim to crack mysteries of the elusive whale shark by going diving off the Galapagos Islands with the world's biggest fish...

Federal officials are considering putting a once-flourishing West Coast salmon on the list of threatened or endangered species...

Correction: Fishing's Footprint story...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has accepted the state parole board's recommendation and is sparing the life of convicted killer Thomas "Bart" Whitaker...

A precision nutrition approach to weight loss didn't hold up in a study testing low fat versus low carb depending on dieters' DNA profiles...

Researchers say they're working to use DNA to identify whether a human bone recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck belongs to the infamous pirate Samuel 'Black Sam' Bellamy...

Medical examiner collects DNA samples to help families find remains of missing loved ones across the country...

A study of bears and berries has determined that the big animals are the main dispersers of fruit seeds in southeast Alaska...