The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

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A new study from investigators at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds that eliciting the relaxation ...

Mass General primary care physician and inaugural writer-in-residence Suzanne Koven. Video: Elizabeth CooneyWhen primary care physician Suzanne Koven sees a patient with a sore throat, she begins by ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

For Rogulja, an associate professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, an intriguing aspect of sleep is the loss of consciousness and awareness it brings, as the ...

At a glance: New AI tool accurately predicts both overall survival and disease-free survival after colorectal cancer diagnosis. The model uses visual markers on pathology images to glean insights into ...

The answer is clear for a handful of well-known genetic mutations, yet despite dramatic leaps in genome sequencing technology over the past 20 years, our ability to interpret the meaning of millions ...

An AI tool identified people at the highest risk for pancreatic cancer up to three years before actual diagnosis.

At a glance: One out of every two people in the world will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. A massive, coordinated international collaboration conducted more than 150,000 ...