CRAFT-MD was designed to be one such more realistic gauge.

David Walt, the HMS Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering and professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation ...

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Harvard Medical School associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, has been named a 2024 Innovation Fund investigator by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The ...

Ludwig van Beethoven suffered profound hearing loss but continued to compose music. Researchers believe he was able to do so because he could sense the vibrations of musical instruments and “hear” ...

Our educational programs advance Harvard Medical School's core mission to alleviate human suffering by nurturing a diverse group of leaders and future leaders in both clinical care and biomedical ...

Glucose, a form of sugar, is the primary source of energy for every cell in the body. Because the brain is so rich in nerve cells, or neurons, it is the most energy-demanding organ, using one-half of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and computational biology are revolutionizing biomedical innovation and its impact on health care. Two assistant professors of biomedical informatics in the Blavatnik ...

This year, researchers in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School continued to illuminate biological phenomena, deepen understanding of disease mechanisms, inform the development of new ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, discovers the ...

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a ...