The awards were made possible by ongoing support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation that aims to spur scientific ...

Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and become a useful medicine. To speed up the process, Zheng is using a recent ...

The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome ...

A protein called STUB1 weakens the cancer-killing power of immune T cells by blocking key signals they need to attack tumors. Disabling STUB1 in lab experiments strengthened T cells’ response to the ...

“Dr. CaBot” goes head-to-head with a human expert to work through a challenging medical case ...

All students complete a scholarly project, and many go further. The Office of Scholarly Engagement (OSE) empowers students to explore basic and clinical sciences, social sciences, arts, and medical ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...

An Asian elephant eats tree bark in Tamil Nadu, India. Modifying elephant genomes could help save these endangered species and allow them to transform Arctic landscapes to protect against climate ...

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 ...

Sleep is one of the most essential human activities — so essential, in fact, that if we don’t get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the ...

New AI tool accurately predicts both overall survival and disease-free survival after colorectal cancer diagnosis. The model uses visual markers on pathology images to glean insights into a tumor’s ...