A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is ...

Plasmids are self-replicating genetic elements that float separately from a bacterium’s own chromosomes. Plasmids evolve ...

In many cases, thoroughly washing or cooking your food is enough to prevent infection from listeria.

This award provides an opportunity to learn from successful formal mentoring programs and allows others in the community to ...

Harvard University’s Policy on the Use of Harvard Names and Insignias is introduced with the following statement: “All members of the University and the institution as a whole benefit when its name is ...

Additional Facts, Figures, & Information Harvard Medical School by the Numbers: Explore data on faculty, federal research funding, students (MD, MD-PhD, PhD, DMD, Master’s, DMSc and trainees), MD ...

Harvard Medical School has announced 10 recipients of the Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Awards. Totaling $5 million, these grants are designed to fuel high-potential research conducted ...

Sixteen years ago, Michael Segel was a rising senior at Brookline High School in Massachusetts when, acting on a friend’s suggestion, he signed on for a summer stint at a Harvard stem cell lab. “I was ...

The Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) at Harvard Medical School promotes inclusive excellence and focuses on two main areas: 1) providing opportunity and access to help individuals ...

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, ...

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 ...