Three research teams have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards, an annual awards ...

Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of present-day ...

Love has been the source of ceaseless fascination since antiquity. Artists have tried to capture its beauty and darkness in books, paintings, and songs. Behavioral scientists have explored love as a ...

A microscope image of lung cancer cells (purple) containing the activated form of a metabolic enzyme called GUK1 (brown) that supports cancer growth. Image: Haigis lab At a glance: Researchers ...

They’ve lived on 28-hour cycles at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), with their eating and sleeping shifted four hours later every day, while researchers test their glucose, insulin, and other blood ...

Artificial Intelligence is already being used in clinics to help analyze imaging data, such as X-rays and scans. But the recent arrival of sophisticated large-language AI models on the scene is ...

Three key players share the story of how fundamental discoveries in the laboratory became a first-of-its-kind therapy that promises to have a monumental impact on sickle cell disease patients around ...

Congratulations to the HMS/HSDM 2024 graduates! The MD, DMD, master’s, and PhD graduation celebrations and ceremonies were held on Wednesday, May 22, and Thursday, May 23, 2024. 147 students receive ...

Behind every new drug or vaccine is a journey. It often begins with curiosity. As researchers seek to understand the biological and chemical underpinnings of disease, they generate knowledge that ...

Team that performed first-of-its-kind surgery in 2024 has successfully transplanted another genetically edited pig kidney into a living person. The patient — the fourth worldwide to receive a pig ...

Two faculty members from Harvard Medical School are among the 65 newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for ...