At its founding eight years ago, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute had fewer than ten principal faculty members, according to Benjamin D. Humphreys, co-director of the HSCI Kidney Program. Today, that number has ballooned to more than 80.

Emulsions—mixtures of oil droplets suspended in water—may take much longer to reach equilibrium than previously expected, according to a recent ...

Researchers at Harvard have pioneered a chemical process that enhances the ability of a radioactive fluorine isotope to bond with organic molecules, paving the way for improved medical imaging and pharmaceutical drug production.

Two faculty members at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are leading an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to better understand the causes of Arctic climate change.

Researchers at Harvard and Tufts have devised a groundbreaking new method of encryption that utilizes color-coded E. coli to hide messages.

Diagnostics for All, a non-profit organization led by University Professor George M. Whitesides, has recently created a small, cheap, and portable test for liver damage.

Though Herschbach, at that time a farm boy in rural California, had never heard of Harvard, he would later become not only a Junior Fellow and a Nobel Prize-winning chemist at the same institution as Menzel, but also a House master and an inspirational mentor for many students.

Professor William N. Lipscomb Jr., a Nobel Laureate in chemistry who taught at Harvard for over 50 years, has passed away at the age 91, due to complications from a fall and pneumonia.

Unlike many fellow undergraduates, Anne M. Baldwin ’13 came to Harvard knowing she would be a science concentrator.

Nearly a year after Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building was vacated for renovations in order to accommodate newly-consolidated Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology laboratories, researchers say they are mostly settled and used to their new spaces.