In a clinical trial, the drug, daraxonrasib, doubled survival time for patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ...

Approach builds on prime editing, advances journey toward universal gene therapies ...

Daley laid out the institution’s response to recent challenges from the federal government and described a path forward that ...

Study provides insights into the molecular changes that drive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a thickening and stiffening of heart muscle that can lead to heart failure or sudden cardiac arrest.

Rainy weather has long been blamed for achy joints. Unjustly so, according to new research from Harvard Medical School. The analysis, published Dec. 13 in BMJ, found no relationship between rainfall ...

Harvard Medical School is an epicenter of biomedical discovery with a long history of transformative scientific advances and innovations that have improved, extended, and saved the lives of countless ...

Study suggests CDK2 inhibitors, currently being tested to slow cell growth in a few types of cancer, could be used to reduce ...

Certain features in the spleen hidden within imaging scans may signal a person’s risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a new study led by Harvard Medical School investigators at ...

From the invention of the wheel to the advent of the printing press to the splitting of the atom, history is replete with cautionary tales of new technologies emerging before humanity was ready to ...

About 45,000 years ago, in the midst of the last ice age, modern humans began arriving in what we now call Europe. They stayed even as temperatures fell and great glaciers crept to their maximum ...

The dream of suspended animation has long captivated the human imagination, reflected in countless works of mythology and fiction, from King Arthur and Sleeping Beauty to Captain America and Han Solo.

Sarah Birra carried her second child to term and went into labor in 2015. At the time, Birra was a midwife and a member of an international research team working on a study to reduce childbirth risks.