Aspiring physician and recent college graduate Minjae (MJ) Eum intends to change circumstances and attitudes about medicine and health care in her home state, Alabama, patient by patient. Many people ...

The 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for their work leading to curative genetic therapies for two major blood disorders: sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia ...

Scientists have created the first detailed map of smell receptors in the nose, catching up with similar achievements in sight, hearing, and touch. The map reveals that smell receptors are highly ...

A pair of new studies indicates that Medicare’s Oncology Care Model, a major test of value‑based payment in cancer care, was more successful than early evaluations suggested. The new analyses show ...

Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...

New research in fruit flies suggests that a decreased desire to eat protein can serve as the earliest known warning sign of the severe wasting condition known as cancer cachexia. Driving the change ...

Newly funded international team including Harvard Medical School scientists will investigate interactions between cancer and the nervous system, which can protect against or promote disease. Findings ...

Amid unprecedented challenges to research and higher education at Harvard University and across the United States this year, Harvard Medical School scientists continued to push the boundaries of ...

Correctly distinguishing between look-alike tumors found in the brain during surgery can guide critical decisions in real time while patient is still in the operating room. A new AI tool outperformed ...

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 ...

A new study in mice describes how the brain rapidly and efficiently increases blood flow to active areas where oxygen and nutrients are needed most. The work shows that the brain relies on a ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle cell disease left them with ...