Courtney Humphries

Faculty |

Harvard’s Elsie Sunderland maps invisible ocean pollutants

Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.

Faculty |

Fish overharvesting, and human health

A worldwide decline in wild saltwater-fish populations threatens subsistence fishermen and the communities they feed.

Faculty |

Seeking the genetic underpinnings of mental illness

Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.

Science |

Using genes to predict risk of mental illness

Can genes predict risk of mental illness?

John Meara

International affairs |

Global surgery gets a game plan, with Harvard players

Lack of access to surgery globally will cost $12.3 trillion during the next 15 years.

Faculty |

Harvard's Randy Buckner and Fenna Krienen say areas of the brain were untethered

A new theory posits that as the brain grew, some regions were freed from necessary tasks

Levi Garraway says having genetic information about many cancers can lead to targeted treatments for patients.

Faculty |

Harvard Researchers probe Cancer genetics to target patient treatments

Genetic information about specific cancer can lead to better patient treatments

Faculty |

Scientists plumb the origins of life on Earth and other planets

How the Origins of Life Initiative began and continues now

Dimitar Sasselov, director of the Origins of Life Initiative, searches for planets around red dwarf stars. Because they are dimmer and smaller than our sun, red dwarfs make ideal targets for taking images of the extrasolar planets that orbit them.

Faculty |

The Origins of Life

Studying how life bloomed on Earth—and might emerge elsewhere

Faculty |

Brain Mapping project to rival or surpass human genome project

A project to map the brain is "the biggest challenge of the century."

A large-scale map of protein interactions in fruit flies provides new ways to study disease.

Faculty |

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas has built the largest protein interaction map to date

A map of protein interactions in fruit flies provides new ways to study disease.

Joseph Giacino (left) and Ross Zafonte

Faculty |

Traumatic brain injury: research on causes, treatment, clinical applications

From causes to clinical applications and treatment, Harvard researchers investigate traumatic brain injury.