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Fall 2024 October 2024
Who or What Has Made You the Physician or Scientist You Are Today?
Who or What Has Made You the Physician or Scientist You Are Today? October 2024HMS alumni reflect on the mentors and mindsets that shaped their careersFall 2024Share Your InsightsHarvard Medicine magazine is collecting answers from HMS alumni for future …
Fall 2024 October 2024
Designing Brain-Computer Interfaces That Connect Neurons to the Digital World
Designing Brain-Computer Interfaces That Connect Neurons to the Digital World October 2024Twenty years after meeting at HMS, two alumni are at the leading edge of efforts to use minimally invasive neural implants to improve human healthFall 2024by Charles …
Fall 2024 October 2024
How Generative AI Is Transforming Medical Education
How Generative AI Is Transforming Medical Education October 2024Harvard Medical School is building artificial intelligence into the curriculum to train the next generation of doctorsFall 2024Research at RiskContinued funding uncertainty jeopardizes …
Fall 2024 October 2024
Can AI Make Medicine More Human?
Can AI Make Medicine More Human? October 2024The history of tools used to support clinical decision-making offers clues to the future of medicine in the age of generative AIFall 2024by Adam Rodman15 min readPerspective Growing up as a nerdy child in the …
Fall 2024 October 2024
Building Better Obstetric Care in Africa
Building Better Obstetric Care in Africa October 2024Sierra Washington’s path from medical school to MozambiqueFall 2024by Catherine Caruso2 min readProfile When Sierra Washington, MD ’05, started her clinical rotation in obstetrics and gynecology during …

Emerging Technologies

Emerging Technologies Clinicians and researchers grapple with innovations that not long ago would have sounded like science fiction Fall 2024 October 2024 How Generative AI Is Transforming Medical Education Harvard Medical School is building artificial …
Fall 2024 October 2024
Did AI Solve the Protein-Folding Problem?
Did AI Solve the Protein-Folding Problem? October 2024Now that AlphaFold has tackled biology’s greatest challenge, scientists can turn to even bigger questionsFall 2024by Molly McDonough12 min readFeature It started with a slab of sperm whale meat.  It …
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The Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Testing
The Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Testing August 2024Is more information better when it comes to prenatal screening?Summer 2024by Molly McDonough7 min readInterview When Vardit Ravitsky was pregnant at age forty, a routine screening test revealed a 1-in-40 …
Summer 2024 August 2024
What a Polygenic Risk Score Can and Can’t Tell You
What a Polygenic Risk Score Can and Can’t Tell You August 2024Scientists have made great strides in predicting the genetic risk of common diseases. Figuring out what to do with that information may be just as hard.Summer 2024Research at RiskContinued …

Uncertainty

Uncertainty Learning to cope with medicine’s many unknowns Summer 2024 August 2024 The Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Testing Is more information better when it comes to prenatal screening? Ethics Genetics Women’s Health Interview Summer 2024 August 2024 What …