Science & Health

The Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund—launched by Harvard’s Office of Technology Development and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability—will fund four research projects focused on solutions to climate challenges.

Melissa Mai didn’t expect to work with plants when she came to Harvard. However, she was drawn to the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences by the ability to rotate through different labs before choosing a final research topic. And once she started learning about the physical problems faced by plants and their relationship to the environment, she knew she had found her place at the intersection between biophysics and plant physiology.

Decades of scientific work at Harvard turned the tide on a fatal disease and yielded insights into immunity, vaccines, and more.

Professor and pulmonologist Mary Rice discusses her new role as the director of Harvard Chan School's Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) and how she's thinking about the intersection of health and climate.

People who follow this Planetary Health Diet have a lower risk of every major cause of death, including cancer, heart disease, and lung disease, according to a recent study by Harvard Chan School researchers.

Senior research fellow and wildfire expert Loretta Mickley explains how climate change contributes to longer wildfire seasons, what that means for health, and how to protect ourselves.

A new artificial intelligence tool identifies possible therapies for thousands of diseases, including those with no existing treatments.

Harvard researchers have found that an existing drug used to treat Alzheimer's could be repurposed to prevent irreversible organ injury.

Harvard researchers have pioneered a revolutionary technique that is set to enhance the understanding and treatment of muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Breaking, a startup spun out of Harvard's Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, has discovered a microbe that can degrade multiple types of plastics in as little as 22 months.