Genetic changes that create ever-expanding numbers of identical sperm cells are more widespread than previously thought, ...

Researchers have developed an AI system called Dr. CaBot that spells out its reasoning as it works through challenging ...

Correctly distinguishing between look-alike tumors found in the brain during surgery can guide critical decisions in real ...

“Dr. CaBot” goes head-to-head with a human expert to work through a challenging medical case ...

The students gather high above the Harvard Medical School campus in a tenth-floor New Research Building classroom, the reflective blue glass of the high-rise next door providing a bright backdrop to ...

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 ...

The Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology program is designed for students with a strong undergraduate biology background and an interest in medicine or fundamental research, as well as academic ...

A team led by scientists at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and ...

When a pregnant mother is undernourished, her child is at a greater than average risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes, in part due to so-called ‘epigenetic’ effects. The study also raised ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

The risk of schizophrenia increases if a person inherits specific variants in a gene related to “synaptic pruning”—the elimination of connections between neurons—according to a study from Harvard ...

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