In The Heart Of Biotech, Leaders Explain The Boston Area’s 'BioBoom'
Click here to listen to the radio piece. The intersection of Ames and Main streets in Cambridge's Kendall Square is perhaps the best...
Once quickly lethal and still humbling, multiple myeloma may be in a ‘golden age’ of treatment
If you can call someone who gets a rare form of cancer lucky, then Deb Graff says she fits the bill. At age 72, Graff has survived nine...
Using Medicine and Science to Improve the Quality of Life
Antoni Ribas Professor of medicine, surgery and molecular and medical pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles and a...
U.S. military veteran receives world's first total penis and scrotum transplant
A U.S. serviceman severely injured several years ago in an IED blast in Afghanistan has received the world's first total penis and...
New York Mice Are Crawling With Bacteria and Viruses
Mice that live in the basements of New York City apartment buildings — even at the most exclusive addresses — carry disease-causing...
Healing process after breast cancer surgery may trigger cancer to spread, study says
Doctors have long wondered why breast cancer patients are more likely to see their cancer spread within the first 18 months after a...
At 88, this doctor won’t give up on a long-ignored treatment for strokes and heart attacks
He’s a professor at Harvard Medical School, but in many ways, Dr. Victor Gurewich is an outsider. His research is funded by a small...
The Future of Sexual Reproduction Could scientists one day use blood and skin cells to replace sperm
The mice scurrying around their cage in Katsuhiko Hayashi's laboratory do not look remarkable. They run, eat and sleep like others of...
For just one day, love is in the air amid the gigabytes
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard students have long had access to Tinder and match.com and Facebook, which was, after all, invented in one of...
More Female Sea Turtles Born as Temperatures Rise
Male sea turtles are disappearing from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A new study of gender ratios found that 99 percent of immature...
