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Cellular connections identified between nervous, immune systems

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Making Memories

Study sheds light on how neurons form long-term memories

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Seven HMS Scientists Receive NIH Awards

Prizes encourage unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical research

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Gut Hormone Insights

2020 Warren Alpert Prize recognizes discoveries that enabled design of treatments for diabetes, obesity

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Airway Sentinels

Researchers identify rare sensory neurons that guard upper airway against threats

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Solving the Mystery of Autism

New center aims to unravel the basic biology of autism and related disorders


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Lighting the Way

Pioneers of optogenetics celebrated at 2019 Warren Alpert Prize Symposium

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Catch the Rhythm

Researchers develop tissue models, potential gene therapy for deadly heart arrhythmia

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Illuminating the Brain

Approach harnesses light and genetics to modulate the activity of neurons, enable study of brain and behavior

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A Fusion of Talents

Bertarelli Foundation, HMS announce collaborative research awards to tackle sensory disorders

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Harvard Medicine magazine

Dream Machines

Sometimes, answering the questions of science requires creating new ways of seeing

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Harvard Medicine magazine

Human Elements

Advances in prosthetics: a photo essay

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