Featured series 
Tag: Research
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Campus & Community
First rule of a disease fighter: be curious
Ph.D. candidate Isaac Witte, student of Doudna and Liu, retraces ‘incremental advances’ that unlocked CRISPR technique
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Health
Food as medicine? How nutrition can improve cancer outcomes.
Tufts professor shares early research regarding programs as part of oncology care
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Campus & Community
Lessons from Beyoncé on public policy
Professor sees parallels between songs on overlooked life experiences of the marginalized, unintended gaps in government safety net
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Health
Materializing safe, on-demand living therapeutics
Implantable Living Materials platform offers novel avenues for deploying future microbial medicines
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Health
‘Harvard Thinking’: Breaking the regret cycle
In podcast, experts offer a better way to cope with mistakes and missed opportunities
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Health
Is napping a sign of a deeper health problem?
New study finds link between certain sleep patterns and higher mortality in older adults
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Health
Hantavirus likely to be fully contained but may take time, Hanage says
Disease much deadlier than COVID but a lot harder to spread
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Health
Glint of light in therapy for deadly ALS after decades of struggle
New drug shows researchers ‘this illness can be stopped’
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Campus & Community
Probing the war of public opinion
Seeing Americans rally for her native Ukraine inspired Anastasiia Pereverten’s thesis
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Health
Simpler is better when it comes to saving lives
Teen, young adult suicides fall from long upward trend after national crisis hotline shifts to three digits
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Campus & Community
Catalyst Professorship fosters collaboration with the private sector
New part-time role allows leading faculty to pursue industry employment alongside academic work
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Health
Should you ask ChatGPT for medical advice?
Physician and AI researcher Adam Rodman says AI can be helpful but has some tips on how, when to use it safely
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Science & Tech
Building useful quantum computers ‘in our direct line of sight’
Researchers say creation of startups suggests game-changing tech may be developing at faster pace than expected
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Science & Tech
Why we love dogs — and they love us back
In podcast, experts break down evolution and biology of this special relationship
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Health
Call it his personal Everest
A new study shows that climbing Mount Everest has gotten safer, but still claims climbers’ lives regularly.
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Health
Guide to a healthy gut
Test your knowledge by taking our quiz — featuring advice from doctor’s new book
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Health
Hearing breakthrough holds up
Gene therapy yields lasting gains for patients with inherited deafness: ‘How well it worked is really amazing.’
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Health
Dangers coming from inside the house
John D. Spengler reflects on 50-year career of clearing the air — including in hockey rinks and on airplanes
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Health
Blood test has potential to detect earliest signals of Alzheimer’s disease
New study suggests higher levels of pTau217 predict a faster progression, even when initial brain scans appear normal
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Health
Rural U.S. bears heaviest burden accessing dental care
Researchers find 24.7 million Americans live in dental deserts, with transportation and specialty care the steepest barriers
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Health
How super-agers keep their brains young
In podcast, experts break down ‘biological contradiction’ of a 65-year-old with the memory of a 25-year-old — and what that means for the rest of us
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Nation & World
‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Garber discusses threat to university-government partnership, AI, fighting bias on campus in talk at 92NY
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Science & Tech
Bone-eating worms and other deep-sea survivors
‘Dark Frontier’ author details life in one of Earth’s harshest environments and quest to carve out ‘national parks’ of the oceans
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Health
Expanding the fight against heart disease
Specialist welcomes shift to more aggressive recommendations
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Health
How forgiving can improve well-being
New study of residents of 22 nations finds psychological, pro-social, character changes
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Health
Are your bathroom habits normal?
In new book, doctor addresses everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
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Health
Demystifying migraine
‘It’s not an imagined headache, and it’s not a mild condition,’ says Michael Moskowitz, Brain Prize recipient for his dogma-defying research
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Science & Tech
The ascent of us
Anthropologist traces split between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, other human forms
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Science & Tech
A world-shifting moment (literally)
Geoscientists track when Earth went from ‘just another planet’ to ‘something very special’
