“We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines,” said ...

Aortic aneurysms — dangerous bulges in the body’s main artery, the aorta — are becoming increasingly common as more people ...

Failure of a gene-reading quality-control mechanism called Integrator leaves cells littered with abnormal RNA strands that ...

Rachel Wolfson, assistant professor of cell biology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, began studying ...

Harvard Medical School developmental biologist Olivier Pourquié is no stranger to scientific honors. He has received research prizes in four different countries and been elected to prestigious groups ...

Community awards received by current Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine faculty, postdocs, staff, and students can also be found, categorized by calendar year, on the HMS ...

Five Harvard Medical School researchers are among the 150 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original ...

Jowan Watson was an NCAA Division I athlete, playing football at Georgetown University, when a major knee injury knocked him out for his sophomore season. “That definitely impacted my psyche,” he said ...

For most of human history, discovering a new therapy was a game of chance. It was only in the late 20th century that we started to design drugs rationally—primarily by translating scientific knowledge ...

Our educational programs advance Harvard Medical School's core mission to alleviate human suffering by nurturing a diverse group of leaders and future leaders in both clinical care and biomedical ...