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Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

Simonson came to HMS in July 2025 from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where she started at the front desk of student affairs, earned a master’s and doctorate, and ultimately became ...

Leonard Zon, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the 2026 March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston Jr., MD Prize ...

Amid unprecedented challenges to research and higher education, HMS scientists continued to push the boundaries of biomedical discovery and health care delivery.

Previous studies have reported that the cerebellum, which is most well-known for coordinating the body’s movements, is also ...

Growing up in Greece, Iosif Lazaridis shared his compatriots’ appreciation that they lived in “the crossroads of Europe and Asia,” past and present. Many people moved to Greece from the Balkans after ...

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 ...

Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists discovered that lithium is ...

Like musical sounds, different states of mind are defined by distinct, characteristic waveforms, recognizable frequencies and rhythms in the electrical field of the brain. When the brain is alert and ...

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, ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person’s physical or mental health improving after taking a ...