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Harvard Medical School’s Top Science News of 2025

December 18, 2025

10 biomedical discoveries that expand knowledge, may improve health

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Study Uncovers Key Genetic Details of Rare Neurodegenerative Disorder

December 10, 2025

Research in roundworms could open new treatment avenues for Friedreich’s ataxia

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December 5, 2025

MassCPR symposium connects academia, pharma, biotech, public health

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Gordon Freeman, Arlene Sharpe Receive Inaugural Gretener-Thürlemann Prize

December 4, 2025

$625,000 prize recognizes breakthrough research into cancer immunotherapy

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November 24, 2025

Fundamental biology is key to better listeria treatment and prevention, says Darren Higgins

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Subverting Plasmids To Combat Antibiotic Resistance

November 20, 2025

Researchers devise way to study, and perhaps curb, evolution within bacteria

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Using Click Chemistry To Drug ‘Undruggable’ Tumor Suppressors

November 7, 2025

Qinheng Zheng uses a daring approach to reveal new treatments for cancer

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HMS Announces Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Awards

November 6, 2025

10 projects receive basic and translational research funding

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HMS Scientists Win Funding From Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

September 25, 2025

New technologies take aim at urgent challenges from autoimmune disease to cancer

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Exploring CRISPR Technology To Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy

September 25, 2025

Tool identifies gene edits that boost CAR T-cell therapy effectiveness in mice

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Making Real Gains in the War on Alzheimer’s

September 19, 2025

Researchers hope new technologies, approaches usher in effective treatment

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The First Precision Medicine for a Genetic Heart Disease

September 11, 2025

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