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

Research in mice identifies protein responsible for regulating gut movement in response to pressure, exercise, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community awards received by current Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine faculty, postdocs, staff, and students can also be found, categorized by calendar year, on the HMS ...

A microscope image of H5N1 avian influenza. Credit: CDC and NIAID Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, ...

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 ...

Surgeons restored corneal surfaces in the injured eyes of 14 patients in a small clinical trial. Stem cells from each patient’s healthy eye were cultivated in a lab to grow healthy tissue that could ...

Two of the award recipients, John Kheir (left, background) and Yifeng Peng, at work on an injectable treatment for patients with life-threatening oxygen deprivation. Image: Michael Goderre/Boston ...