Researchers discover how mutant protein leads to melanoma

Discovery of new mechanism could have wide implications for other cancers.

Alice McCarthy • harvard
April 26, 2023 ~4 min

New approach to slowing aggressive leukemia

Compounds that degrade proteins and block cell growth developed by Harvard researchers hold promise as a treatment for more types of cancer.

Yahya Chaudhry • harvard
March 31, 2023 ~5 min


Low-carb diet reduces risk of premature death in patients with Type 2 diabetes

Harvard study finds adhering to a plant-based low-carbohydrate diet was tied to a reduction in overall, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality among people with Type 2 diabetes.

Maya Brownstein • harvard
March 1, 2023 ~3 min

Weight plays role in vitamin D’s health benefits

Researchers have found a correlation between vitamin D’s positive health outcomes and a person’s body mass index (BMI).

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Jan. 17, 2023 ~7 min

Excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s ‘The Song of the Cell’

Cells are the building blocks of life, Siddhartha Mukherjee says in his new book, but their vulnerabilities are also our vulnerabilities.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Nov. 2, 2022 ~13 min

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Aristotle, COVID, and the ‘new human’

Pulitzer Prize-winning physician-author Siddhartha Mukherjee returns with “The Song of the Cell.”

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Oct. 20, 2022 ~7 min

Researchers report dramatic rise in early onset cancers

Altered microbiome, lack of sleep seen as possible culprits in 30-year global increase among under-50 adults.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Communications • harvard
Sept. 8, 2022 ~5 min

Surgical procedures haven’t recovered from COVID

Reductions in surgical procedures precipitated by SARS-CoV-2 have not fully returned to their pre-pandemic levels, resulting in severe backlogs and deferred surgeries.

Tracy Hampton • harvard
Aug. 23, 2022 ~5 min


Gorge today, sweat tomorrow? That’s not how it works.

Researcher I-Min Lee outlines fresh data showing that you can’t outrun a bad diet.

Alvin Powell • harvard
July 27, 2022 ~6 min

Poverty linked to worse outcomes in pediatric cancer

Race, ethnicity, poverty linked to worse outcomes in children treated for high-risk neuroblastoma, according to new study.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
June 2, 2022 ~6 min

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