A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.

BOSTON (AP) — Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, according to university officials. In an internal ...

On the windowsill of a science laboratory high above the clamor of the Harvard Medical School campus, tidy rows of sunflower, avocado, and lemon plants bask in the afternoon sun. Every day, scientists ...

Those who gathered on Thursday, Oct. 27, for the grand opening of the Blavatnik Harvard Life Lab Longwood were there not just to admire a new state-of-the art research facility but to celebrate the ...

The Blavatnik Life Lab offers business mentorship through partnerships with the Harvard Business School and its sister lab, the Pagliuca Life Lab. John Soares/Harvard ...