Federal grants are not gifts; rather, the U.S. government identified these research projects as priorities for the American people and selected researchers at Harvard for this funding through a highly ...

Microglia — immune cells in the brain and spinal cord — play crucial roles in keeping the brain healthy, including helping ...

Medical students today are answering the call to heal patients in the tradition of centuries of physicians before them. But they are facing broken health care systems, exponential advances in ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...

Allard was intrigued to learn that scientists suspect the appendages are sensory organs that help the fish — called sea ...

A microscope image of H5N1 avian influenza. Credit: CDC and NIAID Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, ...

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 ...

Love has been the source of ceaseless fascination since antiquity. Artists have tried to capture its beauty and darkness in books, paintings, and songs. Behavioral scientists have explored love as a ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of present-day ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority people (LGBTQ+), are at greater risk of dying by suicide, of cardiovascular disease, and of a cascading list of other ...

The new approach marks a major step forward in the design of AI tools to support clinical decisions in cancer diagnosis, therapy. The model uses features of a tumor’s microenvironment to forecast how ...

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial ...