Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife ...

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

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 ...

Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own tissues. The protein, called granzyme K, whose role until now was unclear, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in their complex local environments, opening new avenues to investigate bacterial ...

Artificial Intelligence is already being used in clinics to help analyze imaging data, such as X-rays and scans. But the recent arrival of sophisticated large-language AI models on the scene is ...

They’ve lived on 28-hour cycles at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), with their eating and sleeping shifted four hours later every day, while researchers test their glucose, insulin, and other blood ...