Organelles spit out DNA contaminated with damaging components, leading to the activation of inflammatory enzymes, mouse ...

Dr. Joan Brugge's research into breast cancer is one of hundreds of projects at Harvard caught up in an ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the university’s handling of antisemitism on ...

When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...

Patients with sickle cell disease often require blood that closely matches their own. September is Sickle Cell Awareness ...

A young boy from Southern California is being hailed as a hero after donating stem cells to help his father survive his battle with leukemia.

The innate immune system sees drugs as threats, but researchers are taking advantage of this response to make cancer therapies more effective.

An experimental gene therapy was found to slow the progression of Huntington's disease, marking a major step toward a ...

Doctors have announced the first successful treatment for Huntington’s disease, a devastating inherited condition that ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

A team led by scientists at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and ...

Replacing immune cells called microglia holds promise for addressing brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

HHMI Janelia Research Campus Senior Group Leader Meng Wang and her team study longevity. They've shown that by overexpressing ...