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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A Harvard scientist has an interesting theory as to how our universe was formed: in a laboratory by higher “class” of lifeform. Avi Loeb, bestselling author and the former chair of Harvard’s astronomy ...

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 ...

Two scientists were arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing trade secrets from a laboratory at Harvard Medical School’s department of cell biology. The trade secrets, according to the federal ...

National Resilience, a company developing technologies that overcome the challenges of manufacturing complex biological medicines, is turning to Harvard University to find some of those new solutions.

Two former postdoctoral researchers have admitted taking scientific material from a Harvard Medical School laboratory without permission seven years ago. Their admissions were part of an agreement ...