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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Northpond Ventures announced today…

Heart disease kills more people of all sexes than anything else. But for more women…

People with Parkinson’s disease and their doctors confront many unknowns, including the answer to exactly…

Sixteen MIT students and postdocs recently traveled to Washington to advocate for federal funding of…

Over the past few years of his PhD research, Harim Won has been laying the…

In type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune response attacks the pancreas’s insulin-producing beta cells, leading to…

In a project jointly led by the Kunes and Engert laboratories, co-first authors Caroline Wee, Erin Song, and Maxim Nikitchenko used the…

Genetic studies have revealed many genes linked to both common and rare disease, but to…

About one in 20,000 infants is born with what’s called a congenital giant nevus—a huge,…

Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, Patricia Kipkemoi spent years watching a young family member struggle…