A low-oxygen environment — similar to the thin air found at Mount Everest base camp — can protect the brain and restore ...

The research, done in mice and in human cells, shows that a protein called STUB1 restrains the immune system’s elite ...

Nearly 200 new medical and dental students donned white coats and celebrated the start of their educational journeys at ...

A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they ...

Findings, based on mouse studies, could pave the way for more effective cancer treatments ...

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, and humans. Despite 70 documented human cases, there are no known ...

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 ...

Congratulations to the HMS/HSDM 2024 graduates! The MD, DMD, master’s, and PhD graduation celebrations and ceremonies were held on Wednesday, May 22, and Thursday, May 23, 2024.

The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head ...

At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born with the mutation. Analyses reveal that the ...

Breast cancer rates rose by 1 percent per year from 2012-2021 for all U.S. women combined, with steeper increases for women under 50 and Asian American and Pacific Islander women, according to the ...

New AI model identifies possible therapies from existing medicines for thousands of diseases, including rare ones with no current treatments. The AI tool generates new insights on its own, applies ...