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, 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 ...

Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a neurodegenerative disease diagnosed after death, most often in athletes who played contact sports and in military personnel — is not just caused by repeated ...

Harvard Medical School’s core mission is to educate students and seed the fields of science and medicine with inspirational leaders. Established in 1782, the School has produced generations of ...