Science
Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.
What Bonobos Teach Us About Female Power and Cooperation
A Harvard scientist expands our understanding of our closest living relatives.
by Annie Roth
Blood protein found in young mice reverses age-related heart failure in old mice
A protein that circulates in the blood of young mice reverses cardiac hypertrophy in old mice.
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
Christoph Irmscher biography of Louis Agassiz reviewed by James Hanken
The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz
by James Hanken
Mouse model doesn't work for human inflammatory diseases
Mice don't work as model organisms for human burns, blunt trauma and infection.
Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse
Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.