New research in fruit flies suggests that a decreased desire to eat protein can serve as the earliest known warning sign of ...

On Jan. 1, she stepped into the role of faculty director of the Office for Scholarly Engagement (OSE), which coordinates ...

Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

Third-year Pathways MD student Emilie Baxter spent her first-year summer break at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in ...

Physician-executive, internist, and public health innovator Monica Bharel will deliver the keynote speech at the Harvard ...

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For most of human history, discovering a new therapy was a game of chance. It was only in the late 20th century that we started to design drugs rationally—primarily by translating scientific knowledge ...

We invite you to apply and join our community of educators who are transforming health. Applications for those entering the Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology program in 2026 are now open. The ...

New study traces how a protein essential for hearing evolved from an ancient ion channel into today’s exquisitely sensitive sound sensor. Researchers pinpointed a small loop on the protein that ...

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 ...

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, ...

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial ...