Approach builds on prime editing, advances journey toward universal gene therapies ...

Study suggests CDK2 inhibitors, currently being tested to slow cell growth in a few types of cancer, could be used to reduce ...

Daley laid out the institution’s response to recent challenges from the federal government and described a path forward that ...

Study provides insights into the molecular changes that drive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a thickening and stiffening of heart muscle that can lead to heart failure or sudden cardiac arrest.

Rainy weather has long been blamed for achy joints. Unjustly so, according to new research from Harvard Medical School. The analysis, published Dec. 13 in BMJ, found no relationship between rainfall ...

Harvard Medical School is an epicenter of biomedical discovery with a long history of transformative scientific advances and innovations that have improved, extended, and saved the lives of countless ...

The first administrative organization of Harvard Medical School after its founding in 1782 took place in 1816 with the appointment of Dr. John Collins Warren as Dean, a new office created to oversee ...

Machine learning reveals complex patterns that can guide care and research ...

The findings, published Sept. 10 in Science, provide an explanation for at least some of the patients whose PCD has been a genetic mystery and could improve doctors’ ability to diagnose the disease.

Certain features in the spleen hidden within imaging scans may signal a person’s risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a new study led by Harvard Medical School investigators at ...

Like everyone else, physicians can harbor biases. Such biases—whether conscious or unconscious—could be particularly toxic in medicine, as they could lead to inequitable care and worsen health ...

Sleep is one of the most essential human activities — so essential, in fact, that if we don’t get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the ...