Featured series 
Tag: Research Powers Progress
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Health
‘It’s through research that we can live longer, healthier lives’
Harvard scientists discuss potential impacts of federal funding cuts — from U.S. brain drain to fewer medical breakthroughs
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‘Miraculous’ treatments for more patients
David Mooney’s team develops immunotherapies that work across many cancer types
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Improving cancer care
Nancy Keating’s team uses healthcare data to study access to treatment across populations
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Health
Attack of the cells
Duane Wesemann’s lab looks to body’s immune system to understand and treat disorders, allergies
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Hearing breakthrough
David Corey’s lab closes in on revolutionary interventions to treat hereditary deafness
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Health
HIV resurgence
Epidemiologist Jeff Imai-Eaton warns funding cuts could reverse decades of gains in prevention, care
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Science & Tech
Highly sensitive science
David Ginty probes pleasure and pain to shed light on autism and other conditions
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Nation & World
As reading scores decline, a study primed to help grinds to a halt
Partnership with Texas, Colorado researchers terminated as part of federal funding cuts targeting Harvard
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Health
What might cancer treatment teach us about dealing with retinal disease?
Joan Miller’s innovative thinking led to therapies for macular degeneration that have helped millions, made her better leader
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Science & Tech
Reading skills — and struggles — manifest earlier than thought
New finding underscores need to intervene before kids start school, say researchers
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Health
Cuts imperil ‘keys to future health’
Project has tracked lives, lifestyles, and well-being of cohorts over decades, led to insights, interventions in cardiovascular disease, cancers, nutrition
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Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure
Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete
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Young researcher’s ALS attack plan is now a no-go
Career award among casualties of ‘terrifying’ cuts affecting lab of David Sinclair
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Science & Tech
Science that gives humans more say over their destinies
David Liu’s gene-editing technologies demonstrate game-changing potential in two recent cases
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Nation & World
Judge sides with Harvard on international students
Extends order blocking government’s attempt to revoke participation in Student and Exchange Visitor Program
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Nation & World
Let’s not send low-income students back to the ’80s
Financial aid red tape nearly derailed Susan Dynarski’s undergrad dreams. Now she sees decades of progress under threat.
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Health
We know exercise is good for you. Why? He‘s working on it.
Expanding on decades of research, a new study seeks to pinpoint movement’s molecular benefits
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Health
Tips for staying alive, decades in the making
JoAnn Manson has spent her career researching – and highlighting – how everyday choices influence health
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Health
How just a fishing expedition helped lead to GLP-1
Story of game-changing therapy illustrates crucial role of fundamental research breakthroughs
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Work & Economy
Funding today, entrepreneurship tomorrow. Or not.
Threat to research is a threat to U.S. innovation and growth, HBS analyst says
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Health
Worth the grind
Hard work of securing a federal grant pays off for researchers: ‘It means you can do something to try to help people.’
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Health
How halt in funding hurts efforts to ensure safety of patients in medical research
Stop-work order disrupts system that facilitates oversight of studies happening at multiple sites
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Science & Tech
He got the stop-work order. Then the scrambling began.
Wyss’ Don Ingber details rush to hold onto consequential projects, talented researchers — and system that has driven American innovation
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Health
Rewriting genetic destiny
David Liu, Breakthrough Prize recipient, retraces path to an ‘incredibly exciting’ disease fighter: ‘This is the essence of basic science.’
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Science & Tech
Long trail from 1992 discovery to 2024 Nobel
Gary Ruvkun recounts years of research, which gradually drew interest, mostly fueled by NIH grants
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Campus & Community
Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
Filing argues freeze of research funding violates First Amendment, laws, procedures
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Nation & World
Freezing funding halts medical, engineering, and scientific research
Projects focus on issues from TB and chemotherapy to prolonged space travel, pandemic preparedness
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Campus & Community
‘This is weakening the United States.’
Scholars react to Trump administration actions against Harvard and other institutions
