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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Study in mice offers insights into the brain circuitry underlying certain types of reward-based choices. Researchers identified distinct groups of brain cells activated when animals anticipate a ...

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 ...

Our educational programs advance Harvard Medical School's core mission to alleviate human suffering by nurturing a diverse group of leaders and future leaders in both clinical care and biomedical ...

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 ...