Dolores J. Brown Staff Award This award, presented by the HMS Office of Human Resources, was established in 2002 by the Brown family to honor Dolores J. Brown and commemorate her contributions to the ...

The 2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to three scientists whose discoveries culminated in the development ...

The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded to five scientists for the discovery and characterization of the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1 — findings that subsequently ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a glance: Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor to the massive Indo-European language family. The population ...

A new genetic study demands reexamination of the identities of, and relationships among, some of the people buried and preserved in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. Get more HMS news here An ...

At a glance: New study of nearly 2,000 former NFL players found that 34 percent think they have CTE, a condition it is not yet possible to confirm in a living person. Former players who believed they ...

But it’s just as important to augment disparities research with education and community-based efforts to pave the way for inclusive health care that respects and welcomes all patients, notes ...

On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the latest mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern. While the virus is not new, its behavior warrants ...

At a glance: In a marked advance over current AI models, the new approach captures how proteins act not in isolation but in their cellular and tissue environments. The model illuminates how ...