On April 12, 1955, U.S. officials heralded the news. Utahns had a front-row seat to the drug trials.

Ronald Evans, the Salk Institute biologist whose insights about hormones have helped scientists develop more effective drugs for cancer, diabetes and heart disease, was awarded the Japan Prize Tuesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cheers that greeted State Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo’s announcement that Florida would become the first state to end ...

As drought conditions persist across California, a breakthrough discovery in San Diego could help crops survive with less water, and potentially reshape the future of farming. At the Salk Institute, ...

The Salk Institute in La Jolla has received a $50 million gift to support its efforts to find ways to get plants to more effectively capture and store atmospheric carbon, a strategy seen as essential ...

Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative will receive $30 million from the Bezos Earth Fund to advance efforts to increase the ability of crop plants, such as corn and soybeans, to capture and store ...

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla said Tuesday that it has settled two of the three gender discrimination suits filed against the center last year by a trio of prominent female ...