The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

HMS alumni Keith Dunleavy, founder and CEO of health care technology company Inovalon, and his wife, Katherine Dunleavy, a ...

The heart tissue showed upregulation of molecular pathways that help recruit and retain immune cells involved in inflammation. Patients with active disease also had greater abundance of clusters of ...

Breast cancer rates rose by 1 percent per year from 2012-2021 for all U.S. women combined, with steeper increases for women under 50 and Asian American and Pacific Islander women, according to the ...

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of ...

David Walt, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at HMS and professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is operating at a microscopic level, observing cell abnormalities ...

CHASERR is unlike traditional genes, which are used as blueprints for making messenger RNA and proteins that perform various functions in cells. Instead, CHASERR codes for a long noncoding RNA, or ...

Study in mice reveals rapid release of dopamine is not needed for initiating movement but is important for activities related to reward-seeking and motivation. The findings help explain why the widely ...

Nine HMS faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the NAM recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical ...

Faster than a speeding bullet: Like Superman, artificial intelligence is being taken up at a startling rate — more rapidly, even, than the personal computer and the internet were when those ...

Ryan Flynn, assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative ...