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

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

Luca Maini on what new U.S. policies could mean for patients and health systems ...

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

Web-based Exams: All start times are subject to change Radiology does not use the NBME Subject exams but does hold an end-of-clerkship exam on the last day of each clerkship. Attendance Required: ...

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

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 ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...

Sleep is one of the most essential human activities — so essential, in fact, that if we don’t get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the ...

In a study of lab-engineered cells, Harvard Med researchers identify how the immune system neutralizes the herpesvirus. The research maps, for the first time, the maneuvers used by virus and host in ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

Over the past several years, scientists have generated intriguing insights suggesting that variations in gut microbiomes—the collections of bacteria and other microbes in our digestive systems—may ...