Researchers have advanced colon-on-a-chip models to deepen studies of inflammatory bowel disease. Chips included two types of ...

Constance Cepko, the Bullard Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, received a 2026 ...

Persistence is also central to the questions he studies. His work examines how the brain generates responses that unfold over ...

Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists discovered that lithium is ...

New method helps researchers distinguish genetic mutations that cause cancer from those that merely accumulate during aging. Results suggest that only a subset of non-inherited genetic mutations ...

Commitment to leadership in nutrition education began in 1942 and continues to evolve with requirements and electives for students, trainees, professionals, and the public.

Harvard Medical School has a special tradition of lowering the HMS flag atop the Gordon Hall of Medicine to half-staff in memory of current members of the HMS community. An email is sent from the dean ...

Discoveries made at Harvard Medical School have improved the health and lives of countless people. Today, we continue our progress toward the treatments of tomorrow. Our researchers – based at the ...

Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Commuter Services ...

A new way that Harvard Medical School is strengthening students’ science communication skills is by holding a Three Minute ...

Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and how those conditions might be linked. Now, ...

Even before we are born and begin experiencing the sensations of daily life — a soft shirt on our arms, for example, or a hard tabletop under our fingertips — humans begin to form the senses needed to ...