Physicians have long observed a mystifying phenomenon: After a bout of infection or an autoimmune disease flare-up, some ...

The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded to five scientists for the discovery and characterization of the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1 — findings that subsequently ...

New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn ...

Five HMS researchers have been elected fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy. Election recognizes scientists whose contributions have driven significant innovation and ...

Jowan Watson, a fourth-year student in Harvard Medical School’s Pathways MD program, developed a first-of-its-kind residency curriculum in sports psychiatry. Jenny Rowley, a fifth-year Pathways MD ...

Existing treatments for endometriosis have changed little in the past 30 years and are often ineffective or have undesired ...

Two researchers from Harvard Medical School have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and ...

Joyful shouts filled the lobby of the New Research Building on the Harvard Medical School campus as 164 graduating students tore open the envelopes of long-awaited letters containing the momentous ...

Sixteen years ago, Michael Segel was a rising senior at Brookline High School in Massachusetts when, acting on a friend’s suggestion, he signed on for a summer stint at a Harvard stem cell lab. “I was ...

Open-source AI model performed on par with leading proprietary AI tool in solving tough medical cases that require complex clinical reasoning. AI can optimize clinicians’ performance and help reduce ...