Once inside the body, HIV persists because of its remarkable ability to hide within healthy CD4 T cells, where it can lie ...

Efforts to develop a gene therapy for Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) — a rare, life-threatening disorder in which bone marrow ...

Christopher McDougle, the HMS Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, was awarded the Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric ...

“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the ...

But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current Biology, offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such ...

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

The findings suggest the dominant “two-hit” hypothesis of cancer development may not tell the full story behind how cancer arises. Study identifies cellular changes that prime cancer-related genes for ...

Beyond his accomplishments as a radiologist, professor, and public health leader, Stanley Bohrer, MD ’58, MPH ’75, was a lifelong sculptor who could carve just about anything out of wood. He spent 14 ...

The mechanisms by which the body interprets environmental factors, reports them to the brain, and is in turn directed by the brain to respond to them are little understood. The lab of HMS cell biology ...