A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is ...

In many cases, thoroughly washing or cooking your food is enough to prevent infection from listeria.

Plasmids are self-replicating genetic elements that float separately from a bacterium’s own chromosomes. Plasmids evolve ...

This award provides an opportunity to learn from successful formal mentoring programs and allows others in the community to ...

Luca Maini on what new U.S. policies could mean for patients and health systems ...

Immunotherapy has redefined cancer treatment, but not all patients experience the same benefit when treated. New research in mice identifies how gut bacteria alter the body’s response to a common form ...

Luca Maini, assistant professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, studies competition and regulation in pharmaceutical markets. He has studied how national ...

If current guidelines for cholesterol and high blood pressure treatment remain unchanged, a newly unveiled heart risk calculator would render 16 million people ineligible for preventive therapy. Loss ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...

The Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) at Harvard Medical School promotes inclusive excellence and focuses on two main areas: 1) providing opportunity and access to help individuals ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...