The scientists uncovered two groups of brain cells in mice: one that helps mice learn about above-average outcomes and ...

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In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...

Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

Artificial Intelligence is already being used in clinics to help analyze imaging data, such as X-rays and scans. But the recent arrival of sophisticated large-language AI models on the scene is ...

Harvard Medical School's main address is 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115. The campus can be conveniently accessed via Longwood Avenue, at the intersection of Avenue Louis Pasteur. Follow the ...

They have also been happily married for nearly four decades. Love may well be one of the most studied, but least understood, behaviors. More than 20 years ago, the biological anthropologist Helen ...

These findings not only affect the health and well-being of professional players and their families, they have also left parents questioning whether they should prohibit their children from playing ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, discovers the ...

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a ...