Testing platform will allow the research community to explore the human microbiome in new ways.

For the first time, Harvard researchers have captured images of individual viruses forming, offering a real-time view into the kinetics of viral assembly.

Scientists have recently discovered that different diets — say, high-fat versus low-fat, or plant-based versus animal-based — can rapidly and reproducibly alter the composition and activity of the gut microbiome, where differences in the composition and activity can affect everything from metabolism to immunity to behavior.

Lehmann, a world-renowned developmental and cell biology researcher, is the institute’s fifth director.

Detailed observations in the lateral septum indicate region processes movement and reward information to help direct behavior.

A major research centre says no biological agents have been released from a blast and fire at a lab.

Financier Victor Vescovo completes his quest to visit the deepest parts of Earth's five oceans.

Erin Hecht, who joined the faculty in January, has published her first paper on our canine comrades in the Journal of Neuroscience, finding that different breeds have different brain organizations owing to human cultivation of specific traits.

Undergraduate Meucci Ilunga spent 10 weeks investigating protein interactions, exploring career options, and making new friends.

Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans.