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A person whose head is out of frame, wearing a white goat and gloves, holds a stack of Petri dishes with orange material in them. In the background, more dishes can be seen on a lab bench.

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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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

Discoveries in the Seidman Lab gave way to a novel treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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New Research Building Renamed as Veritas Science Center

September 3, 2025

Underscores Harvard Medical School’s commitment to research and discovery

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Seeding Solutions for Bipolar Disorder

August 25, 2025

11 new “outside-the-box” projects seek to illuminate causes, innovative treatments

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Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease?

August 6, 2025

Study: Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice

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Improving Creation of Microglia in a Dish for Brain Research

June 10, 2025

More efficient and authentic cell creation enables immune studies, drug development

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Meet Two of the Researchers Selected by the Pope To Promote Science

May 5, 2025

Members of Pontifical Academy of Sciences share hopes for improving human health

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Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards Fuel Translational Research

March 3, 2025

Awards aim to accelerate translation of discoveries made at Harvard Medical School into new…

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Creating the World’s First CRISPR Medicine, for Sickle Cell Disease

February 20, 2025

How a genetic insight paired with gene editing technology led to a life-changing new therapy

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Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European Language Family

February 5, 2025

Findings resolve “steppe hypothesis” enigma

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New Understanding of How Genetic Mutation Causes Huntington’s Disease

January 16, 2025

Brain cell study shows mutation expands over decades, becomes rapidly toxic later in life

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