Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and ...

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: ...

The awards were made possible by ongoing support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation that aims to spur scientific ...

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 ...

Immunotherapy has redefined cancer treatment, but not all patients experience the same benefit when treated. New research in mice identifies how gut bacteria alter the body’s response to a common form ...

Benjamin Waterhouse introduces the smallpox vaccine to the United States and helps gain acceptance for the new procedure. Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, ...

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 ...

An Asian elephant eats tree bark in Tamil Nadu, India. Modifying elephant genomes could help save these endangered species and allow them to transform Arctic landscapes to protect against climate ...

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 ...

In the late 1700s, a nightmare was defined as a “disease when a man in his sleep supposes he has a great weight laying upon him.” This definition came from the popular reference text, An Universal ...

Four years after the first cases of an unusual pneumonia appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, nearly 7 million people have lost their lives to COVID-19, and some 65 million more continue to struggle ...

The students gather high above the Harvard Medical School campus in a tenth-floor New Research Building classroom, the reflective blue glass of the high-rise next door providing a bright backdrop to ...