The scientists used AI technology to design proteins that would activate a cell signaling language called Notch, which is ...

Study finds sensory cells that detect tissue damage, irritants also rein in harmful immune responses to protect the lungs ...

The research, done in mice and in human cells, shows that a protein called STUB1 restrains the immune system’s elite ...

A low-oxygen environment — similar to the thin air found at Mount Everest base camp — can protect the brain and restore ...

Fidencio Saldaña was appointed dean for students at Harvard Medical School in July 2016. Dr. Saldaña oversees the Office of Student Affairs, which collaborates with the HMS academic societies to ...

Checking Up on Symptom Checkers Web-based diagnostic and triage tools often get it wrong, but sometimes they can help guide seriously ill patients to needed care ...

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 ...

1799Smallpox vaccineBenjamin Waterhouse introduces the smallpox vaccine to the United States and helps gain acceptance for the new procedure.1843Puerperal fever Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the ...

Learning focus areas At its January 2023 meeting, the HMS Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee responded enthusiastically to a presentation by Basu and other faculty and students involved in ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 new medical and dental students donned white coats and celebrated the start of their educational journeys at ...

Ted A. James, MD, MHCM, FACS, is the Medical Director and Vice Chair at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, USA. He is also an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.