The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

First-ever clinical trial exclusively conducted among people with hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis known as pre-extensively ...

The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

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A new study from investigators at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds that eliciting the relaxation ...

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, ...

At a glance: In a small clinical trial of nine patients with advanced kidney cancer, a personalized vaccine generated robust immune response. All patients remained cancer-free for an average of 3 ...

For Rogulja, an associate professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, an intriguing aspect of sleep is the loss of consciousness and awareness it brings, as the ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...

A Mammoth Solution Scientists look to extinct genes to protect endangered species, climate ...

A team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School has successfully used acupuncture to tame cytokine storms in mice with systemic inflammation. In the study, published Aug. 12 in ...