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

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...

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

The scientists uncovered two groups of brain cells in mice: one that helps mice learn about above-average outcomes and ...

Congratulations to the HMS/HSDM 2024 graduates! The MD, DMD, master’s, and PhD graduation celebrations and ceremonies were ...

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 ...

Alvin Francis Poussaint, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, died on Feb. 24 at age 90 after a short illness. He died peacefully at home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School, a patient helped inspire him to study the genetics of sickle cell disease alongside his mentor, Stuart H. Orkin, in a laboratory at ...