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Harvard researchers have created an antibiotic that can overcome many drug-resistant infections, which have become a growing, deadly global health menace. A team led by Andrew Myers, Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, reports in...

Harvard researchers have created an antibiotic that can overcome many drug-resistant infections, which have become a growing, deadly global health menace. A team led by Andrew Myers, Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, reports in...

How two Harvard graduate students spent their summer in the Massachusetts State House By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy In Vermont in 2008, a five-year-old boy named Bjorn tested positive for arsenic poisoning after drinking water from his family’s well. The...

How graduate student Frederick Moss choreographs a life in science and art By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Asked to explain decay, some scientists might talk about mold and cheese. Or sugar and teeth. Or bacteria and enzymes. Soon, Frederick Moss might just...

The intricate quest to discover where tetracyclines go in human cells By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy We know that antibiotics treat bacterial infections. We also know why they work. Tetracycline antibiotics, for example, stop bacteria from making protein...

In 2017, our department made daring discoveries, pursued new frontiers, and excelled in teaching and research. Below, we countdown the year's ten most-read news and celebrate the varied successes of our faculty, students, researchers and alumni. 10. Alan...