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A grid of 9 images represents top HMS science articles from 2024. They show two surgeons at work; a spot circled on a lung X-ray; health care providers seen from above; a target with pills scattered across it; cells colored purple and aqua under a microscope; illustration of lungs; a mouse brain with a cluster of green cells; mosquitoes; and a vial of blood labeled “BRCA Genetic Test.”

The Year in Harvard Medical School Science

December 18, 2024

Reflecting on research discoveries reported in 2024

Swirling chains of backlit, glowing rod-shaped, translucent forms filled with red and orange and green blobs of different sizes and shapes.

How Dormant Bacteria Return to Life

April 27, 2023

Solution to long-standing mystery of bacterial spores illuminates new paths for disease prevention

White hand holding tweezers reaches for a small piece of gold in a blue dish full of wet sand

Panning for Genetic Gold

February 2, 2021

New machine learning tool helps pinpoint disease-related genes, functions

DNA strands made of pills

Predicting Side Effects

June 18, 2020

Open-source machine learning tool connects drug targets with adverse reactions