The 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for their work leading to curative genetic ...

Amid rapid changes that are causing an upheaval in global health, Harvard Medical School community members gathered to ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

Commitment to leadership in nutrition education began in 1942 and continues to evolve with requirements and electives for students, trainees, professionals, and the public.

Clinical trial shows promise of RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib to extend life, delay cancer growth ...

Shares honor with NIH researcher for work leading to cures for sickle cell disease, beta-thalassemia ...

Harvard Medical School has announced 10 recipients of the Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Awards. Totaling $5 million, these grants are designed to fuel high-potential research conducted ...

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 ...

The drug-free nasal spray shielded mice from deadly form of the influenza virus. In a 3D replica of the nasal cavity, the gel-like substance enhanced capture of respiratory droplets, preventing them ...

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School details the step-by-step cascade that allows bacteria to break through the brain’s protective layers — the meninges — and cause brain infection ...

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 international study 13 years in the making demonstrates for the first time that degradation in the way DNA is organized and regulated — known as epigenetics — can drive aging in an organism, ...