Zhang and fellow students are benefiting from enhanced skill development as a result of a new type of position at the School, called the PCE core faculty.

Found in most living organisms, circadian rhythms are regulated by light, behavior, and a biological clock mechanism—a set of clock genes located in cells throughout the body.

Our researchers – based at the School and its 15 affiliated hospitals – generate knowledge that transforms the way we treat patients, by producing life-changing new medicines, devices, and ...

First-ever clinical trial exclusively conducted among people with hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis known as pre-extensively ...

The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...

For Rogulja, an associate professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, an intriguing aspect of sleep is the loss of consciousness and awareness it brings, as the ...

The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head ...

Over the past several years, scientists have generated intriguing insights suggesting that variations in gut microbiomes—the collections of bacteria and other microbes in our digestive systems—may ...

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, ...

The answer is clear for a handful of well-known genetic mutations, yet despite dramatic leaps in genome sequencing technology over the past 20 years, our ability to interpret the meaning of millions ...

Wei-Chung Allen Lee is working in a new field of neuroscience called connectomics that aims to comprehensively map connections between neurons. Video: Catherine Caruso, Stephanie Dutchen, and Tyler ...