Researchers have developed an AI system called Dr. CaBot that spells out its reasoning as it works through challenging medical cases and reaches a diagnosis. For the first time, the New England ...

Correctly distinguishing between look-alike tumors found in the brain during surgery can guide critical decisions in real ...

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 ...

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 ...

But federal funding cuts put the brakes on project to improve national health care access ...

For most of human history, discovering a new therapy was a game of chance. It was only in the late 20th century that we started to design drugs rationally—primarily by translating scientific knowledge ...

The Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology program is designed for students with a strong undergraduate biology background and an interest in medicine or fundamental research, as well as academic ...

A team led by scientists at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...