Harvard University’s Policy on the Use of Harvard Names and Insignias is introduced with the following statement: “All members of the University and the institution as a whole benefit when its name is ...

In many cases, thoroughly washing or cooking your food is enough to prevent infection from listeria.

A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is ...

Plasmids are self-replicating genetic elements that float separately from a bacterium’s own chromosomes. Plasmids evolve ...

This award provides an opportunity to learn from successful formal mentoring programs and allows others in the community to ...

Luca Maini, assistant professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, studies competition and regulation in pharmaceutical markets. He has studied how national ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of present-day ...

In a small clinical trial of nine patients with advanced kidney cancer, a personalized vaccine generated robust immune response. All patients remained cancer-free for an average of 3 years. The ...