Efforts to develop a gene therapy for Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) — a rare, life-threatening disorder in which bone marrow ...

“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the HMS Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of ...

Morton was honored for her research leading to the identification of HMGA2, the first gene implicated in the development of uterine fibroids. Her research has focused on finding genes predisposing ...

But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current Biology, offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such as ciliates and amoebae, as well as the cells in our own bodies, could ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have taken another decisive step in their efforts to develop a gene therapy for people with Usher syndrome type 1F, a rare condition that causes deafness and ...

DNA analysis has upended a popular narrative about two people whose remains were cast in plaster in the House of the Cryptoporticus in Pompeii. Image: Courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii A ...

Harvard Medical School’s ability to lead a transformation in medical education and health care through the innovative and responsible integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has now been amplified ...

For millions of people every year, depression is not just an illness but a grueling pattern: anguish, medications, failure, repeat. Supported by a major grant from the nonprofit Wellcome Leap, two ...