Community awards received by current Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine faculty, postdocs, staff, and students can also be found, categorized by calendar year, on the HMS ...

The 2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to three scientists whose discoveries culminated in the development ...

Artificial intelligence can transform medicine in a myriad of ways, including its promise to act as a trusted diagnostic aide to busy clinicians. Over the past two years, proprietary AI models, also ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

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 ...

A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus languages. Results of the international ancient-DNA studies, published Feb. 5 in ...

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, has received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of ...

But it’s just as important to augment disparities research with education and community-based efforts to pave the way for inclusive health care that respects and welcomes all patients, notes ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have designed a versatile, ChatGPT-like AI model capable of performing an array of diagnostic tasks across multiple forms of cancers. The new AI system, described ...

The findings, published Aug. 27 in Cell, answer long-standing questions about why certain viruses, but not others, are susceptible to antiviral medications and how viruses become impervious to drugs.

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial ...