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Can AI transform the way we discover new drugs?

HMS-led team designs AI platform to optimize drug discovery

7 min read
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Tallying the Costs of Dementia-Related Delirium

Hospitalized patients face increased one-year costs to Medicare, study finds

3 min read
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A better way to measure kidney function

Analysis forecasts effects of new race-free kidney-function tests

7 min read
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New Leader Charts Course for Neurobiology

New chair David Ginty shares his plans for moving the neurobiology department into the future

11 min read
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Blavatnik Harvard Life Lab Longwood Opens

New lab houses workspaces for early-stage, high-potential biotech and life sciences startups

10 min read
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New Clues into a Serious Neurodegenerative Disease

A new study sheds light on the basic biology of frontotemporal dementia

5 min read
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Study Reveals Detailed Structure of B-Cell Receptor

Findings can inform vaccines, treatments for COVID, cancers, and beyond

5 min read
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T cell Take Down

Researchers discover how cancer cells manipulate the immune system
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How AI Can Help Diagnose Rare Diseases

New model acts as search engine for large databases of pathology images, helping to identify rare diseases and which patients likely to respond to similar therapies

3 min read
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Lessons for Modern Medicine from Race-Based X-Rays

1968 controversy provides insight for building more equitable health systems

4 min read
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Fingerprinting Sleeping Brain Activity

Unique brain wave ‘fingerprints’ yield pictures of sleeping brain

4 min read
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Support for Pathogen Readiness

MassCPR participating institutions to receive CDC funding for ongoing study of COVID-19 and emerging pathogens

4 min read
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