The 2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to three scientists whose discoveries culminated in the development ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

Love has been the source of ceaseless fascination since antiquity. Artists have tried to capture its beauty and darkness in books, paintings, and songs. Behavioral scientists have explored love as a ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington’s disease is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene in which a three-letter DNA sequence, C-A-G, is repeated at least 40 ...

At a glance: The new approach marks a major step forward in the design of AI tools to support clinical decisions in cancer diagnosis, therapy. The model uses features of a tumor’s microenvironment to ...

On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the latest mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern. While the virus is not new, its behavior warrants ...

How to find the right balance Some of the survey results are nuanced, the authors note, and should not be taken as unqualified public support or rejection of polygenic embryo screening. “These ...

At a glance:One of the most touted promises of medical artificial intelligence tools is their ability to augment human clinicians’ performance by helping them interpret images such as X-rays and CT ...

Should consumers have access to medical advice from AI? The real question, panelists agreed, is not whether patients should have access to AI — they should and already do — but how to ensure that AI ...

Menopause, the time that marks the end of a female’s menstrual cycles, is a significant transition that comes with aging. This change has health effects, but researchers don’t properly consider it in ...

Four years after the first cases of an unusual pneumonia appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, nearly 7 million people have lost their lives to COVID-19, and some 65 million more continue to struggle ...

At a glance: In a study of lab-engineered cells, Harvard Med researchers identify how the immune system neutralizes the herpesvirus. The research maps, for the first time, the maneuvers used by virus ...