Science

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

From Jellyfish to Digital Hearts

How Harvard researchers are helping to build a virtual model of the human heart

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard Horizons doctoral students' ideas that may reshape their disciplines

A new program recognizes eight doctoral students whose ideas, innovations, and insights could change their fields.

Harvard faculty chosen Radcliffe Institute fellows

Fifteen Harvard faculty members chosen.

Harvard faculty national academy of sciences 2013

Eight professors honored

Blavatnik $50 million gift Harvard life sciences boosts biomedical discoveries

Blavatnik Family Foundation’s $50-million gift aims to support development of early-stage Harvard research into human cures

Diabetes treatment discovery by Harvard scientists Douglas Melton and Peng Yi

Hormone found by Harvard's Melton and Yi has the potential to change the way type 2 diabetes is treated

Harvard Medical School to close primate research center

Harvard Medical School announced that it would discontinue the controversial facility

Mouse model doesn't work for human inflammatory diseases

Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

Harvard Astronomers Building Giant Magellan Telescope

The big science of building a giant telescope

by John S. Rosenberg