Mitochondria contain the tiny power plants that churn out life-sustaining energy molecules in our cells. In 2016, the lab of ...

Female mice prone to anxiety may actively seek out a starvation-like state in response to repeated exposure to stress, ...

The new fellows will be recognized at a forum in September in Washington, D.C.

Incoming Harvard Medical School student Shubhayu Bhattacharyay has been named a 2024 recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The fellowship recognizes immigrants and children ...

Health care policy experts say pandemic-era rules that promoted telemedicine should be made permanent to protect gains in quality of care and greater access for millions of patients. Experts caution ...

It was a simple online search for “science internships, Boston” that set Irene Wong on a 10-year path from her hometown of Malden, Massachusetts, across the Charles River to Harvard Medical School, ...

Ask anyone which university has the largest endowment in the world and most will guess correctly that the answer is Harvard. They also will likely have opinions on what Harvard could do with that ...

Aya Awwad presents her clinical investigation into biomarkers for kidney disease, a growing global burden. All images in story: Steve Lipofsky While the Harvard Medical School master’s students and ...

In their unending quest to understand the roots of disease and design new therapies, Harvard Medical School scientists continue to rely on animal models to: ...

Which animal models are best? The short answer is: It depends. Which animal model is most suitable depends on multiple factors, including the type of research performed, the physiologic or biologic ...

Following the core concepts of animal welfare, scientists at HMS take steps to ensure that animals are used in research only when absolutely necessary and that research animals are treated humanely.