Many academic medical centers across the country are chasing “translational science” — the kind of discoveries that will produce medical products, treatments and services for patients. William Chin, executive dean for research at HMS, is quoted.

Latin America's growing prosperity is fueling a cancer epidemic that threatens to overwhelm the region unless governments take urgent preventive action, a new study warned. Paul Goss, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, led the research.

A group of scientists reported that they have pieced together the back story of a gene known as CD33 that could lead to exciting new ways of removing the amyloid plaques that build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and cause so many problems with memory and cognitive functions. Rudolph Tanzi, the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, led the study.