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Efforts to develop a gene therapy for Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) — a rare, life-threatening disorder in which bone marrow ...

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Keisha Carisse P. Mangalili, MD, is a general practitioner and passionate advocate for health system improvement in the Philippines. A first-year student in Harvard Medical School’s Master of Medical ...

Study uncovers the immune basis for heart-muscle inflammation in patients receiving cancer immunotherapy. The findings point to an immune response different from the one directed at the tumor. The ...

An experimental gene therapy raised levels of the key protein protocadherin-15, shown in green, in light-sensing cells in the retinas of nonhuman primates. Image: Maryna Ivanchenko Harvard Medical ...

A dog learns to sit on command, a person hears and eventually tunes out the hum of a washing machine while reading … The capacity to learn and adapt is central to evolution and, indeed, survival.