The cornea is the clear, outermost layer of the eye. Its outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem ...

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife ...

Three research teams have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards, an annual awards ...

Two faculty members from Harvard Medical School are among the 65 newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for ...

Alvin Francis Poussaint, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, died on Feb. 24 at age 90 after a short illness. He died peacefully at home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with ...

Trainees and program leaders describe their experiences with diversity, Harvard-affiliated training programs and life in Boston It’s a place where dedicated educators mentor aspiring physicians and ...

Behind every new drug or vaccine is a journey. It often begins with curiosity. As researchers seek to understand the biological and chemical underpinnings of disease, they generate knowledge that ...

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 ...

Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own tissues. The protein, called granzyme K, whose role until now was unclear, ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School, a patient helped inspire him to study the genetics of sickle cell disease alongside his mentor, Stuart H. Orkin, in a laboratory at ...