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 ...

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 ...

Luca Maini, assistant professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, studies competition and regulation in pharmaceutical markets. He has studied how national ...

Fundamental biology is key to better listeria treatment and prevention, says Darren HigginsSubverting Plasmids To Combat Antibiotic Resistance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...