GSAS News

New research on axolotl salamanders from Duygu Payzin-Dogru, PhD '22, raises the possibility that the mechanisms that allow them to regenerate might one day be manipulated for humans.

In preparation for the Ken Burns documentary event on PBS, we're getting a primer on the founding of the US from Phil Mead, PhD '12, former chief historian and curator of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

New research from Professor Brian Liau, PhD '13, and students Heejin Roh and Simon Shen unveils a powerful mapping tool that may help transform the treatment of genetic disease.

Professor Luca Maini, PhD '18, on pharmaceutical tariffs, direct-to-consumer sales of prescription medications, and the US government's negotiations with pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Of the scary stories told by graduate students as they huddle around a lukewarm coffee pot, none is more terrifying than the tale of the looming deadline. 

A ground breaking gene-insertion technology developed by the musically-inclined Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student Isaac Witte and colleagues may bring us closer to treating diseases like cystic fibrosis at their genetic root.