Under this two-hit model, Brugge says, one normal copy of BRCA1 ought to be able to carry out DNA repair even when the other ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have taken another decisive step in their efforts to develop a gene therapy for people ...

A section of mouse intestine with colored fluorescent tags under a microscope. Image: Michael W. Davidson/Florida State University/Zeiss Microscopy At a glance: Scientists mapped gene expression and ...

But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current Biology, offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such as ciliates and amoebae, as well as the cells in our own bodies, could ...

For millions of people every year, depression is not just an illness but a grueling pattern: anguish, medications, failure, repeat. Supported by a major grant from the nonprofit Wellcome Leap, two ...

DNA analysis has upended a popular narrative about two people whose remains were cast in plaster in the House of the Cryptoporticus in Pompeii. Image: Courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii A ...

Breast cancer rates rose by 1 percent per year from 2012-2021 for all U.S. women combined, with steeper increases for women under 50 and Asian American and Pacific Islander women, according to the ...

Harvard Medical School’s ability to lead a transformation in medical education and health care through the innovative and responsible integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has now been amplified ...

Ryan Flynn, assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative ...