AI-based method predicts risk of atrial fibrillation

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to predict the risk of atrial fibrillation within the next five years based on results from electrocardiograms.

Tracy Hampton • harvard
Nov. 15, 2021 ~4 min

A better gene-transport system targets diseased muscle tissue

A newly engineered gene-delivery system has the potential to make gene therapy for muscle diseases both safer and more effective for patients.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Oct. 19, 2021 ~8 min


Researchers create atlas of developing mouse brain

Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a detailed atlas of a critical region of the developing mouse brain, applying multiple advanced genomic technologies to the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for processing sensation from the body.

Jessica Lau • harvard
June 24, 2021 ~7 min

How We Feel app pilots COVID prediction model

How We Feel app lays groundwork to use big data to understand and predict coronavirus infection.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Sept. 17, 2020 ~9 min

How We Feel app helps track spread of COVID-19

How We Feel app helps fill information gaps regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
April 30, 2020 ~7 min

Broad Institute races to enable coronavirus testing

Facing a pandemic, scientific and administrative teams across the Broad Institute raced to enable coronavirus testing in a matter of days.

Leah Eisenstadt • harvard
March 30, 2020 ~19 min

Harvard experts say Massachusetts may need 1.4 million COVID tests

Massachusetts may need 1.4 million COVID-19 tests and ramp up to tens of thousands given a day, Harvard experts said.

Alvin Powell • harvard
March 13, 2020 ~6 min

Personalized blood biopsies may provide signal of cancer recurrence

Researchers have designed personalized blood biopsies that offer the potential of an early warning signal of breast cancer recurrence.

Karen Zusi • harvard
March 13, 2020 ~8 min


The story behind the mumps outbreaks of 2016-17

Studying the mumps virus genomes in 2016 and 2017 filled in gaps about how the disease was spreading in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the U.S.

Karen Zusi • harvard
Feb. 11, 2020 ~8 min

Big step toward identifying all cancer-causing genetic mutations

An international team of 1,300 scientists has generated the most complete cancer genome map to date, bringing researchers closer to identifying all major cancer-causing genetic mutations.

Stephanie McPherson • harvard
Feb. 5, 2020 ~12 min

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