The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

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 ...

The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority people (LGBTQ+), are at greater risk of dying by suicide, of cardiovascular disease, and of a cascading list of other ...

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 ...

At a glance: Study shows AI improves performance for some radiologists but worsens it for others. Understanding who might benefit from AI and who would not is critical for designing tools that boost ...

At a glance: Research reveals how neurons in the brain are wired to help a mouse make decisions. The findings suggest that different sets of neurons work together to solidify choices. The study ...

What Will It Take to End Tuberculosis? A boundary-pushing global collaboration is betting on the power of science ...

Patients are more likely to fall, get new infections, or experience other forms of harm during their stay in a hospital after it is acquired by a private equity firm, according to a new study led by ...