Ranked #1
Origins of Life
Origins of Life
Jack Szostak, an HMS professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology ... Read more
20 Apr 2012
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7mins
Ranked #2
Metamorphosis of a Medical Student
Metamorphosis of a Medical Student
Everything changes during the third year of medical school. Leaving classrooms for the clinic, students begin to apply l... Read more
15 Feb 2012
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16mins
Ranked #3
3D Mammography Gains Momentum
3D Mammography Gains Momentum
HMS Instructor of Radiology Phoebe Freer explains the benefits of tomosynthesis, an imaging tool developed at Massachus... Read more
29 Mar 2012
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13mins
Ranked #4
Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
According to research by Elizabeth Klerman, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and... Read more
23 May 2011
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8mins
Ranked #5
Challenging Common Knowledge
Challenging Common Knowledge
Economist and physician Anupam “Bapu” Jena, the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at HMS, analy... Read more
12 Aug 2016
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26mins
Ranked #6
Blunt Scrutiny
Blunt Scrutiny
Staci Gruber, HMS associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLe... Read more
21 Oct 2016
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23mins
Ranked #7
Culture Clash
Culture Clash
Joseph Betancourt, HMS associate professor of medicine, shares stories about the challenges of cross-cultural communicat... Read more
8 Apr 2016
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18mins
Ranked #8
Transforming Drug Discovery
Transforming Drug Discovery
Marc Kirschner, head of the Harvard Medical School Department of Systems Biology, describes a new initiative that takes ... Read more
17 Oct 2011
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10mins
Ranked #9
Connecting the Dots
Connecting the Dots
Jessica Halem, program manager of the LGBT Office within the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at... Read more
22 Jun 2016
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21mins
Ranked #10
Genetics in Space
Genetics in Space
Ting Wu, HMS professor of genetics, talks about ways scientists are striving to optimize astronauts' physical and mental... Read more
2 Feb 2016
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24mins
Ranked #11
Under 6 and Overweight
Under 6 and Overweight
Elsie Taveras, an assistant professor of population medicine and of pediatrics at HMS, discusses a new Institute of Medi... Read more
26 Jul 2011
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11mins
Ranked #12
The A-Word
The A-Word
Reisa Sperling, HMS professor of neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, shares her family's personal connection with... Read more
27 Oct 2015
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18mins
Ranked #13
Genetics of Sleep
Genetics of Sleep
Dragana Rogulja, assistant professor of neurobiology at HMS, runs a sleep lab in which hundreds of thousands of fruit fl... Read more
23 Sep 2015
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19mins
Ranked #14
Object Lessons
Object Lessons
Dominic Hall, curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum in the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countw... Read more
21 Aug 2015
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23mins
Ranked #15
Rx: Poetry
Rx: Poetry
Physician and poet Rafael Campo describes how medicine and poetry are interconnected at the most basic levels. According... Read more
16 Jul 2015
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26mins
Ranked #16
Medicine and Morality
Medicine and Morality
Robert Truog, a Harvard Medical School professor at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the HMS Center for Bioeth... Read more
10 Jun 2015
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21mins
Ranked #17
Your Digital Phenotype
Your Digital Phenotype
John Brownstein, HMS associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, explains why your most important F... Read more
20 May 2015
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15mins
Ranked #18
Digging into Ancient DNA
Digging into Ancient DNA
David Reich, professor of genetics at HMS, studies modern and ancient DNA to probe human history and learn about health ... Read more
15 Apr 2015
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16mins
Ranked #19
The Future of Science
The Future of Science
For many students and young researchers today, pursuing a career in science can seem more frightening than energizing. A... Read more
15 Mar 2015
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24mins
Ranked #20
Psychosocial Healing
Psychosocial Healing
Plastic surgeon Sumner Slavin has pioneered methods of tissue reconstruction for patients—including women with breast ca... Read more
12 Nov 2012
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10mins