“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the HMS Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of ...

Morton was honored for her research leading to the identification of HMGA2, the first gene implicated in the development of ...

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 ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have taken another decisive step in their efforts to develop a gene therapy for people with Usher syndrome type 1F, a rare condition that causes deafness and ...

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 ...

As the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children continues to rise—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 child out of 36 is autistic—a beacon of hope emerges ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...