Science & Health

Threats to federal research funding for universities endanger scientific breakthroughs and disease prevention, treatment, and cures.

Explore examples of life-changing innovations by Harvard Medical School researchers who are revolutionizing patient care with groundbreaking discoveries in medicine and clinical practice. 

An international team of researchers demonstrated that they can grow green algae inside shelters made out of bioplastics in Mars-like conditions, a first step toward designing sustainable habitats in space that won’t require bringing materials from Earth.

Students from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences developed TempSense, a thermos-shaped storage container designed to ensure drugs are kept at the right temperature as they’re delivered to hospitals, pharmacies, or at-home users.

Harvard researchers hope to harness the cognitive benefits of a workout for Alzheimer’s patients with mobility issues.

Harvard research across multiple fronts seeks to expand the impact of a cancer therapy that has left patients and doctors awestruck.

A team of Harvard physicists cooled a system made of neutral atoms down a record hundred billion times below room temperature, creating what Faculty of Arts and Sciences professor Markus Greiner calls “the most pristine artificial quantum system ever.” In so doing, the researchers have made it possible to simulate materials in ways that normal computers can’t.

Doug Melton’s life irrevocably changed the day his son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Now, more than 30 years later, the Harvard molecular biologist and his colleagues are within sight of a new treatment that uses stem cells to make healthy insulin-producing cells that can be transplanted into patients.

Technologies developed by Harvard's David Liu have led to two remarkable medical breakthroughs: a personalized treatment that saved a baby with a fatal genetic disorder and the first successful application of prime editing for a rare immune disease.

Ultan McCaffrey MPH ’25 has been able to combine his interest in space medicine with his work in geriatric psychiatry in Harvard Chan School’s MPH-GEN program.