The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

Breast cancer rates rose by 1 percent per year from 2012-2021 for all U.S. women combined, with steeper increases for women ...

HMS alumni Keith Dunleavy, founder and CEO of health care technology company Inovalon, and his wife, Katherine Dunleavy, a ...

David Walt, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at HMS and professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is operating at a microscopic level, observing cell abnormalities ...

CHASERR is unlike traditional genes, which are used as blueprints for making messenger RNA and proteins that perform various functions in cells. Instead, CHASERR codes for a long noncoding RNA, or ...

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of ...

Ryan Flynn, assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative ...

We know that many things influence people’s health, including genetics, behavior, environmental exposure, and socioeconomic factors. One contributor, however, often goes unappreciated: civic ...

Trainees and program leaders describe their experiences with diversity, Harvard-affiliated training programs and life in Boston It’s a place where dedicated educators mentor aspiring physicians and ...

Some endowed professorships are intended to honor expertise within a broad field of study (e.g., psychiatry), whereas others have a more specific focus. Incumbents are appointed in recognition of ...