Harvard Medical School has become a powerful magnet of innovation and opportunity that brings people together to solve ...

The findings, published in Nature Immunology, indicate that tumors edit the activity of multiple genes to avoid immune ...

Harvard Medical School researcher Joel Habener has won the 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his discovery of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a molecule that has become the ...

Harvard Medical School Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership Joan Reede has been awarded the 2024 W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award by the W. Montague Cobb/National Medical ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority people (LGBTQ+), are at greater risk of dying by suicide, of cardiovascular disease, and of a cascading list of other ...

Through the Therapeutics Initiative, HMS aims to accelerate the pace at which fundamental science is translated into new medicines. Image: Gretchen Ertl From the moment he wrapped up a visit to ...

Glucose, a form of sugar, is the primary source of energy for every cell in the body. Because the brain is so rich in nerve cells, or neurons, it is the most energy-demanding organ, using one-half of ...

“Watch what happens,” Emery Brown, AB ’78, AM ’84, MD ’87, PhD ’88, says as he plays a video of brain wave recordings. He’s watching electroencephalography (EEG) from one of his patients starting to ...