Harvard Medical School researchers have taken another decisive step in their efforts to develop a gene therapy for people ...

Under this two-hit model, Brugge says, one normal copy of BRCA1 ought to be able to carry out DNA repair even when the other ...

Beyond his accomplishments as a radiologist, professor, and public health leader, Stanley Bohrer, MD ’58, MPH ’75, was a lifelong sculptor who could carve just about anything out of wood. He spent 14 ...

The mechanisms by which the body interprets environmental factors, reports them to the brain, and is in turn directed by the brain to respond to them are little understood. The lab of HMS cell biology ...

IMAGE: Rebecca E. Rollins/ Partners In Health In an inspiring show of solidarity and foresight, the Lynch Foundation and Mary Lynch Witkowski, AB ’96, MBA ’01, MD ’16, have each committed $1.5 million ...

As the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children continues to rise—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 child out of 36 is autistic—a beacon of hope emerges ...

The heart tissue showed upregulation of molecular pathways that help recruit and retain immune cells involved in inflammation ...

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

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

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