Since 2014, a team led by researchers from the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, the health care delivery ...

This year’s fair, held in September, also offered the chance to celebrate Countway’s 60th anniversary, including cookies ...

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

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

Immunotherapy has redefined cancer treatment, but not all patients experience the same benefit when treated. New research in mice identifies how gut bacteria alter the body’s response to a common form ...

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 ...

It was a centuries-old notion that had profound ramifications for medicine: Infants, especially those born prematurely, felt little or no pain. As recently as the late 1970s, physicians in the United ...

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, ...

Sleep is one of the most essential human activities — so essential, in fact, that if we don’t get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the ...

Three key players share the story of how fundamental discoveries in the laboratory became a first-of-its-kind therapy that promises to have a monumental impact on sickle cell disease patients around ...

New AI tool accurately predicts both overall survival and disease-free survival after colorectal cancer diagnosis. The model uses visual markers on pathology images to glean insights into a tumor’s ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. Beyond causing a staggering number of infections and deaths, the COVID-19 pandemic has also led to significant social ...