Genes are the control panel for an embryo morphing from a ball of cells into organs, muscles, and limbs, but genetics isn’t ...

Part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the Transformative Research Award supports individuals and teams ...

David Walt, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at HMS and professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is operating at a microscopic level, observing cell abnormalities ...

CHASERR is unlike traditional genes, which are used as blueprints for making messenger RNA and proteins that perform various functions in cells. Instead, CHASERR codes for a long noncoding RNA, or ...

Harvard Medical School annually bestows teaching awards on its most outstanding teachers, who, through their excellence in teaching, will impact and influence the professional lives of students long ...

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

Gary Ruvkun with daughter Victoria Ruvkun (left), dog Barnaby, and wife Natasha Staller the morning of the announcement at their home in Newton. Image: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University At a ...

Study in mice reveals rapid release of dopamine is not needed for initiating movement but is important for activities related to reward-seeking and motivation. The findings help explain why the widely ...

Nine HMS faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the NAM recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical ...

Faster than a speeding bullet: Like Superman, artificial intelligence is being taken up at a startling rate — more rapidly, even, than the personal computer and the internet were when those ...