Simonson came to HMS in July 2025 from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where she started at the front desk of student affairs, earned a master’s and doctorate, and ultimately became ...

Leonard Zon, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the 2026 March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston Jr., MD Prize ...

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Previous studies have reported that the cerebellum, which is most well-known for coordinating the body’s movements, is also involved in language. However, scientists still don’t know whether the ...

Sleep is one of the most essential human activities — so essential, in fact, that if we don’t get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the ...

A multi-institutional team led by Harvard Medical School researchers has launched a platform that aims to optimize AI-driven drug discovery by developing more realistic data sets and higher-fidelity ...

Survey reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support using emerging technology to screen embryos during IVF for likelihood of developing certain health conditions or traits that arise from more ...

Growing up in Greece, Iosif Lazaridis shared his compatriots’ appreciation that they lived in “the crossroads of Europe and Asia,” past and present. Many people moved to Greece from the Balkans after ...

Like musical sounds, different states of mind are defined by distinct, characteristic waveforms, recognizable frequencies and rhythms in the electrical field of the brain. When the brain is alert and ...

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial ...

Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and how those conditions might be linked. Now, ...

The main treatment for bipolar disorder, lithium, was approved a half-century ago but doesn’t help all patients and has significant side effects. Little progress has been made in finding better ...