Science

Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.

To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives

Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism

by Lydialyle Gibson

Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine

The when and how of vaccines

by Jonathan Shaw

At Home with Harvard: Health and Fitness

Read some of our extensive coverage on breakthrough health and wellness research.

Canine behavioral specializations reflected in brain structures

Researchers hope to tease out the effects of breeding and training on dog brain structure.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard’s VirScan exposes viral vulnerabilities

A serological test may reveal the COVID-19 virus’s weaknesses—and expose its strategic decoys.

by Bennett McIntosh

Immunity to COVID-19 Appears Feasible

Tests in macaques show robust protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus induced by either vaccines or natural infection.

by Jonathan Shaw

Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds on coronavirus and racial health disparities

A conversation on health disparities, with Paul Farmer and Evelynn Hammonds

by Lydialyle Gibson

Could the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 be double early estimates?

A critical scientific question that bears on policies for fighting the pandemic

by Jonathan Shaw

At Home with Harvard: The Secret Lives of Animals

From zoology and evolutionary science to animal-rights law to the joys of local wildlife, a selection of our favorite animal stories

The Pandemic's Unequal Toll

A Radcliffe Institute online discussion of health disparities laid bare by coronavirus  

by Lydialyle Gibson